Catweasel Questions

[DrDekker]

If I were to build a dedicated WinXP pc for running WinUAE - would installing a Catweasel allow me to run original NDOS game disks or would I be restricted to workbench friendly games?

Also, would the floppy drive have to be an 880k Amiga drive or a 1.44mb pc drive?

Cheers.

[amigakit]

The Catweasel MK4 Plus will image NDOS disks for use with WinUAE and it will read/write to Amiga 880K and 1760K floppy disks.

You can use a regular 1.44MB floppy disk drive within your PC with the Catweasel.

[CSixx]

You won't be able to just insert a disk into the drive and have it show up in winUAE, under workbench or otherwise.

It's basically a disk copier. You can copy a real disk to an image file, and vice-versa.
I had hoped I could do the same thing you are asking with mine, but it doesn't work like that.

It does work with standard 1.44m drives, and will work with most NDOS disks.

[whiteb]

From memory too, if the disk is Copy Protected (as a lot of Originals are), Catweasel will not help you.  It only images to ADF, and the Copy Protection is not copied, and thus would FAIL when you tried to load the resulting ADF. (Unless that has been overcome now).

[QuikSanz]

@ AmigaKit,

Are there drivers now for A1 to handle amiga "Classic" Disks?

Chris

[DrDekker]

Thanks for the info guys - pretty much what I expected.

It would've been brilliant if WinUAE could've utilised the Catweasel hardware (or the Catweasel's hardware updated) in a way that would allow it to load original (copy protected) disks.

An Amiga OS running on modern PC hardware, able to run original classic software.... that'd be bang tidy!