Restocking Individual Computers items, requests? CD32

[alexh]

An A600 030 turbocard? :-D

A Kylwalda?

[alexh]

amigadave wrote:
I recently wrote to Jens about the Kylwalda and he said they are all long gone and will not be produced again.

Bummer, I wanted one so I could boot from a regular PC disk drive.

[alexh]

Kylwalda has (of course) nothing to do with emulation.

It's just amigadave being dumb (again :-))

The example for PC's dates back years when floppy drives were expensive and (just like the Amiga) allows you to connect the one floppy drive to the Catweasel and the PC motherboard floppy connector at the same time to share one floppy disk drive.

It has no role in the PC anymore but still had a role for A1200D's

[alexh]

amigadave wrote:
I maybe made an incorrect assumption that since the Kylwalda was designed to allow the PC floppy drive connected to a Catweasel used in an Amiga to act as DF0: and boot from it, then it would be logical that it would also work the same way when connected to a PC using Amiga emulation.

Yup.

In an Amiga a Kylwalda connects the disk drive to both the Catweasel and the Amiga disk interface (one of which is capable of booting disks.)

In a PC it would connect the disk drive to both the Catweasel and the PC disk interface (both of which are NOT capable of booting Amiga disks in WinUAE)

AFAIK, there is no direct support of anything other than ADF files for DF0: in WinUAE (not Catweasel and especially not the PC FDC). It is because the drivers / hardware are not capable of it.

And so, logically, the kylwalda is of no use in a PC.

[alexh]

http://www.softpres.org

The tools are from Softpres. They work with the Amiga's own floppy controller so you need an Amiga.

Yes they work just like ADF images. However it is a two stage process, you dump the raw data from your disks and send them to SoftPres and if the disks are unmodified they send you an IPF image in return.

People who have received their IPF images have shared them over the years on the net, you can find them if you look hard enough.