This is half an hardware issue and half a software question.
Here it is:
Let's say I've got a bare, unexpanded A500.
I want to run a demo (or whatever) on it, which is freely available for downloading, in the usual .mdf or .lha form.
So, I can download it on my pc hard drive, and...?
How can I create a floppy, possibly bootable, to feed to the Amiga 500?
Is WinUAE of any help?
thanks in advance
Hi,
First you have to buy some plastic, either blue or black in color, about an eight of an inche thick, there are other colors but these seem to be the most traditional. Next you will need to buy a plastic vacuum form machine with a disk type mold for three and a half inch disks. Then you will need to find some sheet metal about 1/16 inch thick, a spring, and a magnetic film with particles on both sides.
Take the magnetic film, cut it in a circle form approximately 3.5 inches, take the 1/16 each sheet metal cut out approximately a inch and one quarter circle, punching a one eight inch square in the middle and a one eight by 5/16 inch square approximately 1/8 inch above the square in the middle of the circle, start 1/4 inch from the end of the circle and bend in an "S" fashion, take the circular magnetic film and cut a one inch hole in the middle, gluing it to the inside bent form of the "S". Insert into the plastic vacuum form of the disk, I use the blue for the disk part, and use a small piece of black plastic for the disk write protect.
Actually winuae will be no help in the creation of a disk.
to make a disk bootable try using a newer model of the Amiga OS, I won't use anything under OS 3.1 myself.
Remember when you feed a disk to your A500, it can be eaten and after going through all this trouble creating this disk, well you know.
hope this helped
smerf
