Many many years have passed... it is good to be back

[Malakie]

Hi,

Just logged in for the first time.

I have been away from the Amiga for many years...  I used to work for Commodore.  After all that transpired, I needed to let it go for a while... just did not think it would be this many years!  LOL

I went from the US Navy to Commodore and Amiga (I was the main technical person out in the field based in Chicago at the time) to running an Amiga software and hardware development company to law enforcement.. hows that for a life change! :-D

Anyhow, I am now out of the military and law enforcement due to injury in the line of duty and have come back to computers.. and now for the first time in many years, my favorite system still, the Amiga.

It is amazing how it is like riding a bicycle.. A couple moments of trepidation trying to remember how to work it then suddenly it all clicks into place. :idea:  

I do have one question if anyone knows.. The two machines I never owned out of every system we produced was the Amiga 600 and Amiga 1200.  I own both a A1200 now and an A4000.  In fact I saved both of these systems from the junk pile so I am piecing things together to make them work.  I have no disks, no cables, no nothing so it has not been easy but I have managed to get the Amiga 1200 (thanks to WinUAE and the workbench .adf files I was able to tranfer to floppy to create system disks) running with a IDE hard drive..

My question is this.. now how can I hook a CD drive to this baby?  I know the IDE port accepts two devices but what needs to be done to have the system recognize the second drive as a cd drive.

Actually I have one more question ... how do I get the PCMCIA slot working??  It recognizes a card when I use the prep tool (using a compact flash memory card) but it will not format it or access it when I try.

Anyhow, it is good to be back... I look forward to getting up to speed on the Amiga community again and seeing what has happened out there.

Malakie

[Malakie]

Hi all,

Thanks for the replies!

I am currently running OS3.1 as I do not have 3.5 or 3.9.  Perhaps someday but not today! If anyone has the disks or CD and they want to donate them to a good cause (ME!),
please feel free to do so! :-D

I will try the CachCDFS system mentioned and see what transpires.  I already have the CD cabled to the IDE port second to the HD I have now working.

I did try just mounting the CD0: devs device but that does not do anything.  As for power, I am running both the hard drive and the CD drive on a separate power
supply unit.

BTW, where can I find an adapter to hook a PC keyboard to an Amiga 4000?  As mentioned in my first post, the other unit I saved from the junk pile was an
Amiga 4000.  I have been able to get it operational!  However there is no keyboard.  I have plenty of PC keyboards so I figure that is the way to go.

Thanks again...

Malakie

[Malakie]

Hi again..

One last item.. I was not able to locate CacheCDFS on the aminet site as someone suggested... is there another location it can be obtained from?

Malakie

[Malakie]

Hi,

Thanks for the comments.  Serving my country was an honor although I do not at all agree with this governments politics.

Yep a real live ex-CBM person here.  As for the people I remember the most... Dave Haney and Gail Wellington are two off the top.  There were many others including many in the field offices like Fernando Bargioni etc.

I thank every for the help.  I have the A1200 machine up and running with an HD, CD and CF card/Microdrive setup.  So cool!  Now for the A4000 system!

I have also been running AmiKit on my PC.  Too bad that is not usable on the Amiga easily!  Nice setup for sure.

Well, back to my Amiga.. Need to see what I still have laying around in some boxes..  Hopefully some floppy disks.. so far, the 20 or so I have tried are all bad.. read write errors up the wazoo..  

Malakie

[Malakie]

Agafaster wrote:
@Malakie,

Jose wrote:

its not the power drain that kills em (my external IDE CDROM was self powered) but its power spikes and over current down the IDE port from big IDE devices that kill unprotected motherboards.

Amigakit.com can supply all you need !

Yuppers..  Will have to do something about that but for now its direct connected via a straight adapter.

The one bummer is we Vets do not get much from our esteemed government when they retire us due to injuries... trying to live on VA benefits while under care is proving to be something you would not believe.  So that buffer IDE thing will have to wait for now... hopefully I will not blow something until then.

Malakie

[Malakie]

Hi,

I am in the U.S.  What would it cost me to have that mailed?  I really do need it if the cost is reasonable...

Malakie

[Malakie]

Hi,

AS long as it works that is fine by me.. Not worried about which keys show.  If you can find out an estimated cost and let me know... we can go from there..

Thanks again

Malakie

meega wrote:
Mm, I don't know on mail cost, offhand, not too sure on the weight/bulk of it when packed.

It has UK keyboard with SHIFT-3 giving a GB Pound sign, and it does not have the international keys (i.e. left SHIFT and RETURN are big). Model No. KKQ-E94YC.

[Malakie]

Plaz wrote:
Welcome Malakie.
Sorry to hear about your injury and I hope we can help raise your spirits a bit with some old computer parts.

I also have some extra gear and I've been looking to clear out some of my stuff. I don't know if I'll have what you need, but definitly mail and ask. I'm in Atlanta and the shipping will be much better than from the UK :-)

If you're handy with a soldering iron, there are many cheap projects for adding hardware or hacks to your amigas too.

Plaz

I will do that.. thank you!

Malakie