Workbenc 2.05 help

[A4000_Mad]

I don't fully understand what your problem is

Welcome baz136

Yeah I tried to help with this before there were any replies, but couldn't figure out what you were actually asking. Eventually I gave up concluding that one of us must be under the alfluence of incohol :lol:

If I now get the gist of it, you are booting into an A1200 with Workbench 2.05 and trying to use PC0. You could also try putting 'fat95' into the L drawer of your Workbench floppy and double clicking on MS0 to read PC formatted floppy disks.



This avoids all the jumbled up file names and under Workbench OS3.9 you actually get an icon for the floppy disk with a Windows logo on it :-)

A4000 Mad

[A4000_Mad]

Fat95 needs mfm.device

Well spotted mate. I've just fully checked this out and you do indeed need 'mfm.device' in the Devs drawer of your Workbench 2.05 floppy as well, together with 'fat95' in the L drawer and MS0 anywhere you like on the disk (just so that you can double click on it). Then remove your Workbench 2.05 floppy and insert a PC formatted floppy and you will get an icon for it. Not a 1.44MB disk for the A1200 though unless you have a special floppy drive. You can of course format Amiga disks in a PC running Windows 98 with the format capacity set to 720K. I know XP can't format a 720K disk but off the top of my head I'm not sure about ME or 2000.


BTW i like your avatar Thomas. It gives the impression that you have a shocking or very unusual problem, but then your post goes on to give hope  :-)

A4000 Mad

[A4000_Mad]

 8-) In XP I had only tried to right click on A\: and select 720K capacity.

What is this Vista like then? The staff at my local computer shop said not to buy it for another 6 months or so as there were hardly any drivers for it at the moment.

A4000 Mad

[A4000_Mad]

@AMIGAZ
Thanks for the Vista info.

@ Tomas
I think you misunderstood mate. I was saying that selecting 720K was the only thing I had tried to do. The option is of course missing from my XP as well.

A4000 Mad