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Offline motorollin

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Re: A500 Virtual Hard Drive via Serial?
« on: December 19, 2010, 10:10:08 PM »
You can, e.g. Using Amiga Explorer. But it will be very slow, won't boot (so will need a boot floppy) and probably won't work with system-unfriendly software like games which switch off AmigaOS.

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Re: A500 Virtual Hard Drive via Serial?
« Reply #1 on: December 20, 2010, 07:12:06 AM »
My mistake - I thought you could do it with Amiga Explorer but it seems that only makes the Amiga devices accessible from the PC side. I still think any serial solution is going to be pretty slow and incompatible though.

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