Hello again

[Amigadude]

Been a while (about 8 years) just back to see how things are going.

Just about to sort through my hardware I have in storage see if any of it still works... the last machine I used (1200D, Blizzard 030/50 64MB doesn't boot any more ) got a towered 1200, 600, couple of 500s & 3 CD32s to test

Any user groups up near leeds/manchester any more? Used to go to SCAG meets...

[Amigadude]

Yeah! she lives :-D 1200 in a desktop case with a 030/50 64Mb and a harddrive (and no floppy drive)... took ages to boot even with "boot with no startup-sequence"

erm... crap I can't remember a thing about Amigas... gonna make getting to work a bit of a pain...  :lol:

it is setup as a webserver, which is about all I remember... it's got a telnet server setup... can't remember the username/password...

doesn't boot when left to it's own devices... ah... 10mins later... insert volume Work... smeg it's lost the main partition... fudge

So some kind of hard drive error has killed it... just gotta remember how to boot into a basic workbench and... and try and remember how to repair it or format and restore the backup... which I hope I archived to the boot partition...

[trekiej]

Welcome back. Alot has been going on these past years.
I guess we are still waiting on that one break through to move us forward.
 

[amigakit]

Welcome back.

[Amigadude]

Welcome back.

Cheers

Alot has been going on these past years.  

The minimig looks cool, still read thru the site to try and catch up :-D

I guess we are still waiting on that one break through to move us forward.

Sounds like when I left  :-(

[HopperJF]

Little has changed since 2002. Back then we had the new hardware but no new AmigaOS. Now it is the other way around. It is sad, but I guess none of us are holding out solely for new Amiga stuff anymore and have adopted a more healthy hobbyist position.

The wait continues.

[Amigadude]

I don't think I'm gonna be able to get the Amiga webserver running again... can't find a backup of the work partition :-(

On the upside the hardware works...

A1200
810Mb hdd (might have bad sectors can't tell cos hdtools crashes)
Blizzard 1230 50Mhz IV with 64Mb of RAM

[Plaz]

Sounds like when I left :-(

I'd laugh if it wasn't so painfully true, but welcome back to the conversation any way. :-)

Plaz

[Amigadude]

Anywayz common sense dictates I should bin the puny pointless 810MB laptop hdd and flog the 1200 + Blizzard on fleabay for 100+ brick...

...so being an EX-Amiganut(EX? dunno I still have a really large soft spot for seemingly lost causes)... if I chuck the 810MB hdd in a laptop then run a LiveCD can I image the drive to a format I could mount and read/repair under an emulator?  

The drive seems to be the only copy of the server I spent ages building... that said I can't remember the last time I used it before I noticed it wasn't responding...

Should I sell up so the hardware can go to a good home where it will be used?

I used to love coding on the miggy... esp. Arexx scripts... the way you could extend the abilities of 1 app by roping in another app or utility to help was cool  :-D  My 1 claim to Amiga fame being that 1 of my scripts made it onto a WB3.9 boing bag

I'll kick about for a bit see if I run across anyone I remember... bumped into Ryu (Daz who was the leading force of IntuitionBase) a while back.

[Matt_H]

if I chuck the 810MB hdd in a laptop then run a LiveCD can I image the drive to a format I could mount and read/repair under an emulator?

Piece of cake! Getting access to the drive on another machine is easy. Whether you can salvage the data is another matter, but you should definitely be able to re-prep it to get it back in service (assuming there's nothing disastrously wrong with it).

Check out the newest WinUAE, which can access Amiga drives directly. I think the drive will work through a USB enclosure, but if not, getting it connected to a regular 40pin IDE port is easy these days.

Good luck, and welcome back.