Greetings all you fantastic Amiga people!
This is my first post and in a way an introduction.
I just dug up my old Amiga500 from my parents basement with about 500 pirated floppy discs with various games and programs. I adopted everything from my uncle when I was a child, and played countless of hours on it. Its been burried for 18 years.
But a few days ago, I brought it home with me, cleaned it inside and outside, even opened the psu and cleaned that one too. Man, it was dusty. The main reason I dug it up is that I love making electronic music, hoping to find some music programs like synths or trackers, and offcourse, try the old games. As a child I only cared about the games, not music programs, but today I'm the opposite, and guess what... I found OctaMed in the pile of discs! YEAH!
So, I hooked it up with the 520 RF-out to my girlfriends LCD tv, got a really bad picture, but MAN I was exited! I could allmost not believe it still worked! Then, as i started going through the tons of discs, almost no one works... Ahh... the pain... my heart just slowly lost its power the more discs I tried and failed... Some games started, like Ski Or Die, but it got stuck in the cool intro music with the hand planting snowboarder image. The same with First Samurai. Same with Chuck Rock, it didn't recognise the fire-button-pushing after swapping to disc two. The only game functioning was North and South. Funny game, but I was sad. The tunnel was dark.
But then, I search a bit on the internet, reading a bit on this HxC thing, allmost like a light at the end of the tunnel.
But then I read about IKONSGR!!! WOHO!!!
I THINK SEE THE LIGHT NOW!!!
Because I have to agree with ikonsgr, I still want to use floppies.
So, ikonsgr, can I now go ahead and buy this from you on ebay, download lots and lots of music programs in the shape of adf files, and then use your brilliant way of transfering them from my laptop to the Amiga500 and then write them to floppy discs from the Amiga500, pack down my computer and start making music with the standalone Amiga500!?!
Do I understand it correctly? It makes my Amiga write disks with the help of my laptop?
Note 1:
I'm not an Amiga expert. I only played the games on it as a child. If I remember it correctly, my uncle showed me only ONE key combination:
Ctrl+A(miga)+A(miga), for me to push when exiting a disc in a safe way. I never learned how to write, copy or even erase discs.
Note 2:
I don't think my laptop have a parallel port. It only have some kind of 15pin-port on the side... But what's this PCI PARALLEL PORT CARD you offer? Can I use my burt up Acer Aspire 5738Z to do the job?
My God! Now I am exited again!!!
PS. Thanks for the Amiga scart cable I just bought from you on ebay. Recieved it today. The picture is very clear now.
