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Re: Have you ever made a dedicated UAE machine?
« on: June 08, 2011, 05:06:10 PM »
Nope, UAE is always something I've run ontop of Windows as a curiosity although I've made a lot more use of it lately as a way of setting up custom Workbench installs for FPGA Amigas and my A4000.  I do have a WinUAE box though with a PCI Catweasle installed, but it rarely gets used.  I'm thinking about putting it in one of the PCI slots in my Mediator A4000 system.
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Re: Have you ever made a dedicated UAE machine?
« Reply #1 on: June 08, 2011, 06:06:04 PM »
Quote from: runequester;643534
This might be a stupid question, but what benefits would the catweasel add to an actual amiga?


In my case, I was planning on using it to write D64 files back to a 5.25" drive to use on my C64/C128, but my Chameleon cartridge might have made that pointless.  :D

Other uses would be to read non-standard disk types from your Amiga by connecting different drives.
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Re: Have you ever made a dedicated UAE machine?
« Reply #2 on: June 08, 2011, 06:12:30 PM »
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Gotcha. Thanks!


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