Catweasel solves the ADF transfer problem!

[Dwyloc]

I have one on order my self I ordered it to allow me to use my digital Amiga joysticks to play Amiga, MAME and spectrum games and write ADF images back to disk.

Support for reading and writing Amiga floppy under WinUAE would also be nice, but at the moment just being able to write ADF images back to floppy to use on my Amiga is what I was looking for when I ordered it.

As I understand things their were hardware limitations with the  mk3 version made real time winUAE write support unworkable which are fixed with the mk4 and that’s why the driver support under windows is so limited for the older versions of the card.

So hopefully in time we will see full support for the new version under WinUAE as I have never own or used a C64 at this time I am not interested in the SID support, but as I am interested in old games and Emulators in general this may change in the future if SID support is easy to setup.

[Dwyloc]

Jens also said that there are plans for drivers which will allow you to make use of the Catweasel ports in the "Game controllers" section in the Windows control panel.

To me that would be the most important driver addition that needs to be made.  From the descriptions of the card that I had read I was under the impression that this was already the case.

I guess this is yet another case of Amiga hardware being sold before it is finished, as you cant use the posts under Linux get either as the drivers have not get been updated for the mk4 cards.

Oh well I guess it dose not mater that my card has not yet been dispatched yet a week after ordering it as it will be a while before I can use it for anything useful anyway :-(

[Dwyloc]

I am still waiting on my card arriving but I have just received the following information from Dirk Jagdmann the author of the linux joystick and keyboard drivers

"I updated my MK3 drivers to MK4. However they currently don't support any of the new features the MK4 has. The plan was to merge my joystick,keyboard code with the SID code that simon white wrote, but as there are currently still some issues we have not released anything yet."

So I guess I we will shortly have Linux support for the joystick port even if we have to wait a while for windows drivers.

So I guess its time to give e-uae a try.

[Dwyloc]

I thought I would just post to say that I now have my catweasel mk4 and although the windows drivers do not yet support pass-through you can use the pass-through feature before the windows drivers is loaded, so you don’t need to disconnected and reconnect the floppy to use it normally.

So you can use it boot off or load a SCSI or SATA driver form floppy while installing windows.
You can also use it under windows if you go into device manager and disable the “Catweasel controller PCI” device under “IndividualComputers devices” then reboot.

When you are finished using the floppy under windows all you need to do is go back into device manager and re-enable “Catweasel controller PCI” device then you can use it again without rebooting.