WinUAE, DICE & Floppies

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Did you know you could download dice 3.16 from aminet ? Just click the link: http://aminet.net/dev/c/dice-3.16.lha

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Here are my assigns:

assign >nil: DCC: dh7:dcc
assign >nil: DLIB: DCC:dlib
assign >nil: DINCLUDE: DCC:include
path >nil: DCC:abin ADD
assign >nil: LIBS: DCC:libs ADD

I can run vopt, but I can't save any projects. Looks (and feels) that dice is a bit outdated here.
Maybe you wanna try gcc or vbcc. Both are free.
Or else try to get a copy of SAS/C which has a similar options gui as dice has.

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and have been reading through the various posts on how to read and convert 880K floppies to .adf files - which I suppose I would then write to 1.44 meg floppies to read back through the emulator.

If you haven't got any other way of getting the adf files to your pc (serial cables, cf card), fd's are the only option.

So, should I try to resurect a physical amiga to read these flops, or go with the DISK2FDI program on an old dos box ?
Right now I'm not sure that the Amiga can write out 1.44 meg PC flops anyway, so it might have to be the PC box that has 2 floppy drives on the same cable - I have an old tower one of those.

If you wanna use it on your pc to run sas/c, use winuae to emulate you amiga.
And no, amiga's don't write out 1.44 mb fd's by default. Use something like (my) kcs dual hd drive for that
If you don't have any other way of getting your fd's on the pc, try splitting your adf files with something like joinsplitter, put them on 720kb disks (you need mfm.device and fat95 for that) and join them back on the pc side.

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