New Harddisk in A600 to play games.

[Roman78]

Since yesterday i've got my own A600HD whit a 45 MB harddisk. (JOY) Now i have an old 800MB harddisk and wat to install that. So far so good. But how do i reinstall the OS? OS 2 is installed on that one. Now i only got 1.3, 3.0 and 3.1. I cannot install OS 3.0 on an A600, can i?

Than i want to copy my game disks on the harddisk. Hear someone talking about HDload (or something like that) and also that i need more ram to use it. (Think that this A600 is compleet standard, whitout eny extention).

What can i do?

[Roman78]

Don't know. How do i find out??

When i'm in the OS and klick about theres something whit 34.xx and 37.xx.

[Roman78]

I've got 2.05 or 2.1.

Got to find os/workbench 2 than. Can i just copy that one that is installed on the harddisk on a disk and that recopy it to the new harddisk?

[Roman78]

 :crazy:

LHA is long ago i used that one. This i'm going to search a 2.1 install disk set. What's the biggest HD size 2.1 can use.

[Roman78]

Hmmmm.... A1200 has Rom 3.0 isit? So i can use Workbench 3.0, do i?

I'm still searching for an A1200. I just want to play old A500 Games so i thought an A600HD is enough. Someone interested in an A600HD???  :lol: Also got 8 A500 here  :roll:

[Roman78]

Rebooting after playing is no problem i think. It's reboot fast, faster than my Dual G4 1,25 or my XP2400+.

I think 800 Mb must work. Only problem i have now is that i need more memory. And a workbench. I found one 2.05 for € 5,- Hope he stil has it. New and still sealed.

I will pm you when it's not working

[Roman78]

Throw away??? I throw nothing away.  :lol:

It's indeed very small machine. Tomorrow i wil try to upgrade the harddisk.

But how do i put those WHDLoad to the Amiga? The PC disk he won't read. Hmmmm think i find out how Amiga Explorer works from Amiga Forever? Or is there a simple way useing a LPT cable?

Hmmm copying the OS to my pc and than back. May also work.

[Roman78]

I just had a PM....

Maybe í have an A1200 over a while .

She said (i think it's a she, i don't know) that when i buy a 3.1 rom and use FastFileSystem patch from aminet that i can use up to 40 gig harddisk... that are... (reken reken) almost 5.000 disks... WOW...  :-o Don't have that much, a 20 gig wil do.  :lol:

I'll wait on her/his reaction.

Can i use a LPT or NullModem cable to trasfer files? I want to backup all my games on a CD or DVD on my PC. Or useing a CD-burner on an Amiga.  :-D

[Roman78]

I'm back....

Just installed WB 2.05 on my A600. The disks came whit the mail today. Now it's formatting my second partition.... 1528 cylinders to go......

[Roman78]