Best IDE to CF HDD solution

[Leffmann]

Bigger hard drives will not eat up more RAM, that must be a mistake, but if you want to play WHDLoad adapted games then you will need a RAM expansion eventually. Better start saving up, they are all very over-priced unfortunately.

[Leffmann]

Do you have a Kickstart 3.0 or 3.1 ROM to use with WinUAE, so you can emulate an A1200?

The most straight forward way to do this is to install ClassicWB in WinUAE and then attach the CF hard drive, partition and quick-format it, and copy the finished ClassicWB to the CF.

[Leffmann]

You need to use Diskpart to clean all partitioning information off the card before you can connect and use it properly in WinUAE.

Run Diskpart as administrator, type "list disk" and find your card and select it, f.ex "select disk 3", then type "clean". Make sure you get the right disk, as you won't be able to recover any files after cleaning it.

If Diskpart says it succeeded with cleaning the card then it's ready for use in WinUAE. If Windows asks to initialize or format the card, click no/cancel.

Run WinUAE as administrator and load a quickstart A1200 config, enable turbo floppy, add the ClassicWB HDF file on UAE controller, and add your card as a new hard drive on IDE. Now you can finish the installation and reboot into ClassicWB.

Do you know how to use HD Toolbox or HDInstTools to change filesystem and partition the card correctly?

[Leffmann]

I looked at the  extracted archive of WHDload and didn't see how I could install it. It  later dawned on me that I'd probably need to compile it all into an ADF  file. I can't understand why it hasn't been supplied as an ADF. I hope  to get that done today.

It can't be supplied as an ADF because the archive file is too large at 1.4M in size, and using several ADFs would be impractical as well.

To install, just open the WHDLoad drawer and click Install.

[Leffmann]

The SD adapters cost $5-10 more, maybe that's why. I agree SD is a more elegant and convenient solution than CF.

The main problem is BEFORE I click on Install where do I save the Install file and all the other package files to? They would either be on a Windoze partition on my laptop or desktop PC, a Linux partition on my laptop or desktop PC, or somehow copied onto Amiga floppy disks. If I somehow click on Install from inside WinUAE I don't know how to get to that stage yet. I think the answer is in some videos on YouTube, but there are different ways of doing it.

You can extract the WHDLoad archive anywhere, the installer will copy all files to your Workbench installation. Just add the LHA archive file as a hard drive in WinUAE, and connect your CF card and boot from it.

This is why it's so much easier to finish your whole Workbench installation in WinUAE; you can make any directory of files, disk images, hard drive images and program archives instantly available with no fuss.