Hello and good afternoon (or morning or evening. Your choice. I'm easy.)
Very old Amiga fan here and I'm just now getting back into my old project out of a sense of nostalgia. I dug out my formerly-functioning 3000 only to discover what looks like catastrophic battery failure which makes the computer itself deader than disco. However the hard drive is still good and I have stacks and stacks of old project floppies and programs I'd like to go through.
So, here's the plan-- Emulate the 3000 OS on my MacBook and resurrect the now dead 3000 there by copying the contents to a CD-ROM and backing up all of my floppies to a memory stick or a second CD through the new faux-Amiga on the MacBook.
Now, the questions... Is this even possible? Users in other threads have suggested that simply taking the SCSI drive out and hooking it to a PC with SCSI capabilities to save the data from the dead 3000 on something compatible with the modern world, but will I be able to actually USE this data like I would if the 3000 still functioned? Sure the OS will be different, but will I be able to run the apps? Also, what of these stacks and stacks of floppies? Will a simple external floppy drive work if I accessed them via the emulated Amiga OS, or will I need to jump through more hoops?
I don't know about the floppies, but I had a bad HD which I managed to grab most of the files off of and restore them on my WinXP machine. I just pointed UAE at where I restored the files to and presto, I was able to boot and everything! Awesome!
