- Can Amiga's Accept HD Floppies... (even if they dont read all of the 1.44MBs)
I've only ever used HD floppies with my amiga and its worked perfectly all the time. I have the stock floppy drive. All that happens is that the amiga sees it as a low-density disk. It does have a greater chance of data corruption (marginal), but that's why I make sure to keep adf backups of disks on my pc, so that if something does happen to the disk, I can just restore it. I think the people that have had trouble either had a dirty or misaligned floppy drive, or bad quality disks. See this
thread for more info. A great piece of software to transfer data between your pc and your amiga is
Amiga Explorer. Your amiga shows up like a regular device in windows. You use a null modem cable between the serial port on your pc and the serial port on your amiga. It works fantastically. You do need to use a null modem serial cable that has (or can be adapted) to db25 as the amiga uses a 25 pin serial port. Many cables claim to be null modem but are actually wired not completely to spec, so they won't work with the amiga. This cable
here will solve all your needs. It not only works, but converts between db9 (standard for modern machines) and db25. If you don't have a serial port, a common usb serial adapter will work fine. Amiga explorer even allows you to dump the rom image from your amiga so you can easily (and legally) use it with an emulator such as winuae.
As for the monitor situation, if you want color output on your tv just get an
a520 adapter. That's what I do so that I don't have to find space for a bulky monitor. (Although the commodore monitors are really nice and will double as a TV since they have composite inputs) Anyway, this adapter plugs into the monitor port, and outputs a standard color composite signal. They show up on ebay all the time. Now, the disadvantage to this option is that your amiga won't switch between pal & ntsc, but will be locked to whatever standard your tv is (and what standard the adapter is). There are software tricks to convert pal games to ntsc, but these don't work that well.
