New Amiga "Walker" pages on-line

[minator]

I recently got hold of a Walker and I decided to see what I can find out about it.

The results of this can be found on my new Walker Pages.


Found Here.  Theres a short history of what it is, pictures of the other versions in development, what's inside (with High-res images) and where it's been shown.

Enjoy...


Note:
If you have any additional info on the Walker please let me know.

Also, if anyone knows how to get it to boot properly I'd really like to know how it's done!

[minator]

OK, tried the bootmenu thing (had to look how to do it - been a long time!).

It... didn't work.

But Walker has a weird boot sequence anyway so I played around a bit and eventually it booted!

Seems it's unstable but after the first boot it seems ok and will reboot fine afterwards.

Looks like a fairly standard OS install, but there are some apps to try out.  I guess they were testing them but one says Cebit preview 1996.

Most seem to work if slowly.
Scala MM300 is there but timing seems a bit messed up.
PPaint locks the machine solid.  
Photogenics 1.2SE - requires a registration code.
Mania (Pinball?) causes a reboot.

This is useful as there is no other way to reboot it apart from the power switch (3 fingered salute does not work.)

Floppy tries to mount discs and fails everytime, only have OFS and PC discs to try though.
Tried to format a floppy but it failed as well.

CD-ROM appears to do nothing.
No idea how to manually mount it and would it read PC CDs?

About gives:
HWG Beta ROM
KS 43.1
WB 40.42
Copyrighted to ESCOM AG

Showconfig gives:
Kickstart 43.1
Exec 43.4
Disk 40.42
16 MB Fast
2 MB Chip


I'll write a full report for the website...

[minator]

Maybe you have already stated somewhere, but i'd be interested to know exactly how you came into possession of this rare Amiga relic?

I used to work at a certain company called Thendic-France and in the basement we had one of these machines.  Well, the problems are not exactly unknown but the end result was the company was put into bankruptcy.

There was a big sale recently and everything was sold off.  I turned up and bid on the walker, and got it - cheap :-D

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Part of the reason was getting something very rare (I thought it was the only one but there's 2 apparantly).

The other reason was to look after it.  This thing does not have a normal computer casing, it is *very* fragile and if someone put it on eBay and put it in the post it'd be destroyed.

I thought I'd put some pictures on line but I got carried away, investigated it's entire story and ended up with 4 pages (and one or more to come now it's booted).

I thought there'd be some interest but I did not expect this:

Over 1000 visitors in 12 hours from Amiga* users, you took 1.5 GBytes (same rate as a slashdotting gave me last year!)


*actually 80% of you are are Windows users - at least I'm using an alternative OS!

[minator]

UPDATE
A "walker working" page has now gone up.
I've also added pics to the insides (back and inside upper casing) and front page (various).

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If I can get KS / WB 3.2 off it I will but I'll need help.
Can an Amiga HD be read in a PC?

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And yes I would gladly sell vital organs to get my hands on one of these things

I bet it would get a good price on eBay...
But I ain't selling :-P

or at the very least a motherboard

There were apparantely a few of these, what happened to them though is anyone's guess...

I guess I'm one of these odd people who actually thought that the case looked cool

Different - thats for sure, I think the colour is wrong though, it should be black.
I liked the fact they were willing to try out such a completely way out design.

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Still surprised at the interest, 1750 visitors so far!  I got OSNews'd earlier in the month and there weren't as many visitors (they did manage to take 7GB in one day though).

[minator]

When you load WinUAE, just select the "Add Hardrive" option on the 'Hard Drives' page, and choose the Amiga hard drive from the pull-down list.

I downloaded a new version of WinUAE but this feature doesn't work on my system (Win98 First Edition - I only use it for Photoshop hence the old version...)

Can it be made to work in Win98?