Hey folks! Greetz from northern Germany...I had an A500 for the longest time (since 1988, even still came with Kick1.2 instead of 1.3)...over the years totally decked out, 2MB chip, 4MB 32-bit fast, GVP A530 accelerator ('030EC and '882), 270MB Quantum SCSI HD, DSS8+ soundsampler, Competition Pro, Kick2.04 and WB2.0, full ECS...it gave me many years of faithful service and we were deeply in love with each other. :lol: (Even had a Toshiba 4x CD-ROM and a SyQuest 270MB removable HD drive for a while)
Alas, during a dark phase in my life I had to sell it all off, saving only my collection of floppies and a .hdf image of the harddisk (I'd already tried WinUAE by then)...now, ~2 years later, I picked up an A600 off eBay just to get my floppies to turn into .adf files for WinUAE, but I'm rediscovering my feelings for the real thing...and already, my 600 has a PCMCIA SD (Secure Digital) adapter and of course a 2.5" HD (just 1.35GB)
works great, even though my Kickstart is only 37.300. Ohyeah, I temporarily plugged the HD via USB into my laptop and ran WinUAE to download lots of Aminet tools and dump them on the drive...WB2.1 w00t!
Unfortunately I never did have much of a chance to really use Kick/WB3.1, let alone 3.5 or 3.9 ... in due time I'll play with those when my PC/WinUAE is really settled in with everything.
Strange, back then with the A500 I did *something* to image the entire HD into a .hdf file and get it onto the PC, I just don't remember *how* LOL... I'm pretty sure it involved CrossDOS and a lot of floppy swapping though. I prolly archived the entire HD into an .lha file and split it into 720K chunks.
Ah, those were the times....and now, these are the times again!
BTW, I'm male, 36 (soon 37) and a total geek....not much of a surprise is it
