Amiga Alphagen MagicBox image import

[amiman99]

The MagicBox (based on A1200) came with High Density Floppy drive and should be able to read PC disks. I'm not sure if the driver for PC disks is loaded and it needs to be verified.
To verify, you could start the MB by holding both mouse buttons during bootup. In the early start menu, choose boot without startup-sequence.
Then in CLI, type LOADWB
there maybe some errors during boot, just ignore.
When the WB is loaded, go to DEVS/DosDrivers folder and see if there is an Icon for PC0:
If is there, then it should work
If is not there, go see if you have STORAGE folder somewhere on the HD.
IF you do, go to DosDrivers folder and drag the icon to System: DEVS/DosDrivers folder and it should work after reboot.

[amiman99]

Same as mine.
When I bought mine from Ebay, the CDROM was busted and the floppy drive was destroying the disks when I tried to write to them.
FYI, you can't just replace the drive, there is a modification done on them and masked by a glue, that can be hard to uncover.

So it could be the disk drive also.

[amiman99]

Get an Amiga mouse and plug in the "Mouse" port. It will work.

If no one messed with your MagicBox, then it's probably the original, and easiest way to check is to open the cover and look inside. Easy way to spot it, look for an adapter that plugs in the floppy drive. So between the cable and floppy drive there should be an adapter. Also, if you're brave, you can open the bottom cover of the floppy drive and see if there is a plasic "glue" stuff covering part of the PCB.
Follow my instruction that I gave in my previous posts, you'll get it working.

I made a video awhile ago showing off my Alphagen working as an Amiga 1200.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2Fpt47UqEo