individual Computers: new address, Catweasel driver update

[Darrin]

Poster: amigakit  Posted: 2008/7/13 17:45:57

The new batch of Catweasel MK4 PCI can be purchased from us. We are now taking pre-orders on our webstore here:

http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=206

Our Prices:

USD $124.12 ( http://usa.amigakit.com )

You know, you're going to make my wife file for divorce!  Hmmmm....

[Darrin]

I take it that with 2 floppy headers on the card that I could connect 1 3.5" and 1 5.25" floppy at the same time to write files to disk for my Amiga and C128?

Does it come with software to write ADF and D64 files to real disks from the PC (without having to load some sort of emulator like UAE running Easy ADF or similar)?

[Darrin]

Ah, so if your PC doesn't have a floppy controller then this doesn't work as you have to route the PC floppy through it?  I thought the CW was a floppy controller.

Cheers for the info.  I'll scratch this of my Xmas list.

[Darrin]

@ Dwyloc:  Thanks.

@ Jens:

routing the PC's floppy controller signals through the Catweasel is optional, meaning, it is not required. However, it's desirable, as the Catweasel does not give you access to the disks with a drive letter (no A: drive). Only specialized software (like the included imagetool for reading/writing ADF, D64 and other images) can use the drives "the Catweasel way".

That sounds perfect for me.  I really only want it for writing Amiga and C64/128 format disks on the PC.  If I need an A: drive on my main PCs (which don't have floppy controllers) then I use a USB 3.5" floppy drive which mounts inself as A: when I insert it.

One last question, does it work under Vista?  The PC I intend to install it in is running XP, but I'm wondering what will happen if I upgrade my main desktop to a machine running Vista in the future.

Thanks.

[Darrin]

Cheers.  Everything looks good then.  :-)

[Darrin]

I know what you mean.  I only have 1 Vista machine and that's my new HP9700 laptop.  I spent a long time making it a dual boot Vista/XP system (1 OS installed in each hard drive) and it was a real pain in the butt with HP actually listing the wrong XP drivers on their site, having to buy a USB floppy is order to install the SATA drivers for XP to install (it was either that or make a slipstream XP disk), chase up beta video driver from nVidia and then finally discover that there are still no audio drivers available!  In the end, I wiped the XP install off in frustration.

To be honest, I'm doing OK with Vista now that I've set it mostly for "classic" operations and disabled a lot of the bells and whistles.  

My major gripe is the endless:

This program needs permission to run...
You must be a Administrator run run this program...
Are you sure you really want to run this program?
Are you absolutely sure you want to run it ebcause M$ hasn't approved the software?
This is your last chance, do you really want to do this?
OK, we'll allow it to run, but we really think you shouldn't.
Fine, ****ing run it then!  See if we care!

:-D

[Darrin]

This same thread on Amigaworld has a few comments from Jens regarding the Clone-A.  I don't think he wants to discuss it until he as a more finished product to demonstrate, but he says that we won't be disappointed.

The project is definately still going ahead.  :-)