1. Boing Bag 2 starts correctly and asks "Do you want to install ROM update" along with BB2 update. Do I want to do that? Is that really going to flash my ROM. How can that be? Is it safe to do?
2. I wanted to dupe my OS3.9 CD after installing MakeCD (BTW, thanks platon42 - you were absolutley correct - no mountlist needed with AMICDFS). I can read from my Sony DRX-720ul external CD/DVD drive with no problem (that's how I installed OS3.9) but MakeCD can't find a driver. I tell MakeCD that the device is USBSCSI.DEVICE but there is no available driver so can't copy CD. Is that because the CD Drive is not native thru the USB port or is it because there's really no driver for my drive? What USB drives are compatible with MakeCD when going thru the Trident software? Or is Trident just a bridge and MakeCD should just work?
3. I installed the IP stack and browser software from the OS3.9 CD. I didn't really mess around with it too much due to time but maybe I could get some help with that later?
4. After installing MUI, I set my resolution to SuperHiRez which give me a lot of flicker on my Commodore 2002 monitor. Is there a way to calm it down with newer software options in OS3.9 and/or MUI? Maybe set the refresh rate somehow? (Man, I need a scandoubler!)
5, How on earth can the OS3.9 emergency disk work correctly when using the Subway USB for my CD connection (I need a native CD drive - don't I.)
6. What's the best software to use to do a brick-level backup of my HDD for easiest recovery?
OK, I'll stop for now..... ;-)
Rog.......
1. I don't believe the ROM update will flash your ROM. I believe it just patches your ROM on startup. Should be safe....
2. Never tried MakeCD. I doubt CD burning will work real well through the subway because of the slowness and CPU overhead. Also, subway interferes with many programs so its not Ideal for some applications. How about adding a SATA port? Thats what I did.
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=534993. Have you tried MiamiDX? It's worth a look...
4. Some color combinations may be better than others. Interlace will always flicker unless you are using a monitor with de-interlacing capability. NTSC will flicker less than PAL modes. Otherwise, Not much you can do to eliminate the problem without a flicker-fixer.
5. Look into the SATA CD-Drive. You'll get 1.6mb/sec vs around 250K/sec.
6. No need for special utilities. Simply plug in the disk you'd like to backup to into your subway USB.
open CLI - type:
copy SYS: NEWSYS: all
where "NEWSYS:" is the name of your external device.
