Dumb Question !

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Hello ! – Heres a stupid question from a noob, I just found my A600 in my parents loft and it’s still works great and I’m having a blast with my old Demo’s and games. – My question is, if I download a DMS file and write it to a floppy, can I use it in my Amiga ? – I don’t have a floppy drive on either of my PC’s but I can buy an external PC floppy drive cheaply, I just don want to spend the money if it wont work ! – Thanks in advance - Scott - PS, love the site but most of the information is well beyond me !

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WOW, Thanks for the replys, I was thinking that maybe i was the only person that was still a fan of the Amiga ! - I have a 2GB CF card laying here not doing anything so to begin with I am going to order the PCMCIA adaptor kit as that looks like a quick and simple way to get back into the world of Amiga. ANOTHER silly question, I have a box with about 600 DS/HD blank discs, will these work in the amiga or do they have to be DS/DD discs ? - I really forgot how good the Amiga was, I have had a blast today playing Magic Pockets (the only game I have as it was left in the floppy drive when it went into the loft MANY years ago)

Thanks again for your help, really looking forward to learning more about this amazing machine !

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Finally I would recomend a 1Mb expansion for that 'trap door' panel on the bottom of the machine. You can pick these up for about £10 - £15 on ebay and will make all the difference when using Workbench and EasyADF.

it's 1Mb already

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Just ordered an EasyADF PCMCIA Compact Flash Transfer Kit ! - Looking forward to getting it – Thanks again for the help !
 
  Are Amiga games abandonware now ?
 
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  Scott

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Kit came yesterday and I spent several hours last night trying to use it but I seem to have a problem that might be hardware based, everything loads and works great until it comes to write the floppy, the floppy spins up but the head does not move, and thats how it sits until I turn if off. The floppy drive formats and copies discs via the workbench fine but just will not write a disc with easy adf package ....... could it be a bad drive in my A600 or the fact that Its a bog standard 1mb A600, I have tried using both DSDD and DSHD discs, nither will write ?

Any clues ?  :confused:

Thanks in advance

Scott

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Not sure it this helps but my equipment should now be in my signature !

[bpb235]

You could try other software for writing adf files. I remember using a program named ADFBlitzer that worked ok for me with both reading and writing disks.
Check aminet or here:
http://amigamuseum.emu-france.com/Fichiers/Downloads/
(I also think there are other adf programs made)
You also mentioned some dms files. Try to get the dms program from aminet and try to write a dms file to floppy.

A personal experience I had with floppies is that DD disks are more reliable than HD disks when using them in DD diskdrives. I did get a lot more read/write errors when using HD disks on my amiga than with DD disks.
Another tip could be to try to find a cleaning disk for the diskdrive and give it a run.

I have a floppy cleaning kit and have ran that 3 times without any help. I've been messing the both DD & HD discs and both have the same problem. About 2 hours ago, I did finally get a ADF file to burn to a floppy but then the same problem has been happening ever since ...... I really think it may be DF0 as it's now started to error when formatting discs and copying discs using Workbench, I think 11 years in a FREEZING cold loft has done it's worst, I see the disc drives are cheap enough to buy, Are they easy to fit ?

Thanks again for all the help

Scott