switching from Amiga to PC (no soul overboard )

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This is a tough question to express, so in advance I'm sorry that this question is long and diffuse...

Bascially my question is as simple as it is complex: I want an Amiga laptop...
Okay, so I have this fancy laptop computer (windows XP) but I want it to be an Amiga. Amiga never really made laptops, so I have no real choice... I've already thought about circuit bending an Amiga 600 but I'm afraid I'm too stupid to get that off the ground.

I want to use the laptop for music only, just like I do with my Amiga. I use Octamed 4.0 and I hope I could run that on the laptop becase I refuse to part with that program. Is that possible at all? Can I run Octamed 4.0 on my laptop? And if it ca be done, will it be able to sequence midi thru the USB midi interface I've got?

I'd also like to transfer my .mod's (they only consist of midi notes, no audio at all) to tha same laptop. How can I do such, since my Amiga can not read dos disks and my PC refuses amiga DD disks... I can't hook up my amiga 1200 to internet to download any software I need, but if needed I'm willing to get whatever I need to make this happen.

Has anybody an idea I could work with? I'm rather desperate

(oh, if this is of any help: I've got an Amiga 1200 with workbench 3.9 and 100mb harddisk and a 1ghz Compaq laptop running XP)

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Hehe, that easy? I'm already smiling, but if I get this working I'll be the most happy kid on earth and I'll have Santa give my gifts to the poor for atleast 5 years

That transom-tool, how will I get that running on my Amiga? And that transfer, what would be the easiest (not persé cheapest) way to do this? I want to keep using my Amiga and make transfers from time to time.

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Oh darn... Maybe Santa can stop one time and give me the knowledge I need ;)Or maybe a manual so I can RTFM

First things first

XP can indeed not format 720K disks. However, it should indeed be able to read them. I formatted a disk on the Amiga, but XP won't read it... It says 'disk not formatted'. Did I do something wrong on the Amiga (I formatted it in workbench, no other formatting tool) or is there something else wrong?

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Luckily I have another computer that runs windows ME and it can format 720. However... when I inser the disk in my Amiga I get the DFO? icon...

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Yeah, that worrks!!

So now I've gotten this far that I have the kick.rom in my RAM disk. A page on the internet says something about Crossdos? Where can I find that?

(the page I refer to is http://ale.emuunlim.com/get-kick-rom.htm)

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This is rather stupid... yesterday my internet connection died so I could not ask here but I have encountered a problem... When my Amiga starts up, the RAM disk is full already. It contains drawers:
-Clipboard (which is empty)
-ENV (which contains KICKSTART (which I mistook for the kick.rom earlier), WORKBENCH and a drawer SYS)
-T

Info says that the RAM disk is 100% full, so I can't copy the kick.rom there... Atleast it doesn't show there... Any advice on what I should do now? I'm rather ashamed I'm bothering you guys with these questions...

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Thanks alot guys Very kind of you!

Meanwhile I still didn't pull it off... The kick.rom doesn't appear on my RAM disk.
I did the folowing steps:

I inserted the disk with the transrom on it, the transrom I found in WinUEA. and mounted PC0
 
In Shell I typed:

PC0:
COPY TRANSROM RAM:

The floppy clicks one time.
Then I typed:

RAM:
TRANSROM RAM:KICK.ROM

The Amiga obviously did something for a while, the screen started flashing and I saw all these codes appear in SHELL.
After it was done I typed:

RAM:
COPY KICK.ROM PC0:

This is where things go wrong, because I get the following message: can't open kick.rom for input - object not found

... I suck Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? (good lord, this is only a small file, lord knows how many obstacles I'll have to face before I'll get UAE and Octamed running )

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Who said Amiga has no future? Me and my Amiga, we'll keep eachother busy till the end of days Hahaha... Can you believe I've been sratching my head about this all day? I got the command lines from this page: http://ale.emuunlim.com/get-kick-rom.htm It looked rather reliable so I did not doubt it at all... All I needed was a > in the command line...
Thank you very, very much! I now have a 512kb kick.rom on my DD disk I hope I'll get better at this, I'm afraid I have a long way to go Thanks again!

on with the program

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Erm... okay, so there it is, on my laptop:



What's next?

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And how would I make such a disk What needs to go on there? Is there a manual somewhere I can read? I know little about this emulating stuff, so I have to search it on the net, but I have no clue what keywords are important in order to find the right info...

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Thanks alot! It sounds difficult, but I have time on my hands and I'm still eeger to accomplish my plan. I'll get working on it