Back to the Future, need help to preserve unique Amiga

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Awww. Why go the hard route. Just borrow a CDRW from a PC, get yourself the free version of MakeCD and backup your harddrive onto a CD. Why mess with a dumb PC?

Here's the page MAKECD

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Mallette wrote:
You guys can't realize just how far I am from anything Amiga these days.  I once spoke REXX and knew Fat Agnus personally.  I am quite lost now and a Bill Gates zombie waiting minutes for something that should happen in nanoseconds.  

I have no idea what a mediator is and had to parse awhile to remember what a zorro slot was/is.  

On the CD side, will the Ami recognize an IDE burner?  That appears to be the path of least resistance at the moment, though I do intend to dig around in my junk for a null modem.

I (a year ago or so) tried to get a SCSI HDD to be recognized (there is a SCSI card in SimStation for reasons I cannot remember) but it wouldn't show.  

Dave

Sure, it should recognize any IDE device, since thats the standard in the A4000 and A1200 vs SCSI for all the older Amiga models. Just download the MakeCD program, and it'll list the drives that have been tested with the program.

As with any SCSI device, make sure that the ID on the HD is different from the others (if you have others hooked up).

Did you run HDToolbox or was the HD already formated in AmigaDOS?

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Oh yes! Pictures of your setup would be pretty nifty.

madsjm wrote:
Wouldn't it be easiest to just unplug the Amiga's harddrive and mount it in WinUAE? It's a no-brainer.
Fiddling with drivers, filesystems etc on the Amiga side is far more time consuming, especially for someone who's been on the dark side for so many years.

Nah. Keep it simple. I'd work within the system he has currently, since it seems to be rather a unique setup. Plus, its better to muck around in the guts of WB and hardware to get back into the swing of how it works.

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Question, do you have OS3.1, 3.5 or 3.9 with you? If you do, simply take the SIMharddrive out of the 4000, put the new one in, format it with a fresh install of the Workbench, make the SIMhd a slave, install it in the 4000, and just copy all the files to the new harddrive.

Keep it simple and you'll have less trouble.

Although Amiga Forever is cool, if you want to take your amiga anywhere if you've got a laptop.

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Hi Mallette. Good luck on your Amiga/Lazarus project.

As far as the fate of our hardware? Better left unsaid. Too many stepped on toes, burn-outs, and bruised egos.

Short story, string of dead companies that touched the hardware, and today, scammers "owning" the name but doing nothing. A couple of people like Jens actually producing some hardware to keep the old hardware going somewhat.

Just do a search of old topics and you'll read the painfull discussions. It's a sad story though.