Dumb Question !

[tokyoracer]

it's 1Mb already

With the RAM upgrade it should total to 2Mb, sorry I wasn't clear.

[Tajmaster]

it's 1Mb already

I think the OP meant an additional 1MB If you want to play games off floppy disks then youre best looking for an external floppy drive too, otherwise you might get an embarassing wrist pain :laughing:
 
Some games will take advantage of the extra 1MB some wont but its worth getting both expansions, I used to have 2MB and an external floppy on my first A500+ back in the day, it was a god send not having to swap bloody disks all the time...and damn annoying when you found a game that didnt user either the RAM, floppy drive or both! :furious:
 
If you dont want to hunt on eBay, Amigakit also sell A600 1MB upgrades:
 
http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=879

[cecilia]

still a fan of Amiga

[bpb235]

Just ordered an EasyADF PCMCIA Compact Flash Transfer Kit ! - Looking forward to getting it – Thanks again for the help !
 
  Are Amiga games abandonware now ?
 
  Thanks
 
  Scott

[amigakit]

Many thanks for the order of EasyADF - it will be dispatched very shortly.

[bpb235]

Kit came yesterday and I spent several hours last night trying to use it but I seem to have a problem that might be hardware based, everything loads and works great until it comes to write the floppy, the floppy spins up but the head does not move, and thats how it sits until I turn if off. The floppy drive formats and copies discs via the workbench fine but just will not write a disc with easy adf package ....... could it be a bad drive in my A600 or the fact that Its a bog standard 1mb A600, I have tried using both DSDD and DSHD discs, nither will write ?

Any clues ?  :confused:

Thanks in advance

Scott

[bpb235]

Not sure it this helps but my equipment should now be in my signature !

[koaftder]

Threads like this is what Amiga.org is all about.

[amyren]

Kit came yesterday and I spent several hours last night trying to use it but I seem to have a problem that might be hardware based, everything loads and works great until it comes to write the floppy, the floppy spins up but the head does not move, and thats how it sits until I turn if off. The floppy drive formats and copies discs via the workbench fine but just will not write a disc with easy adf package ....... could it be a bad drive in my A600 or the fact that Its a bog standard 1mb A600, I have tried using both DSDD and DSHD discs, nither will write ?

Any clues ?  :confused:

Thanks in advance

Scott

You could try other software for writing adf files. I remember using a program named ADFBlitzer that worked ok for me with both reading and writing disks.
Check aminet or here:
http://amigamuseum.emu-france.com/Fichiers/Downloads/
(I also think there are other adf programs made)
You also mentioned some dms files. Try to get the dms program from aminet and try to write a dms file to floppy.

A personal experience I had with floppies is that DD disks are more reliable than HD disks when using them in DD diskdrives. I did get a lot more read/write errors when using HD disks on my amiga than with DD disks.
Another tip could be to try to find a cleaning disk for the diskdrive and give it a run.

[Matt_H]

Are Amiga games abandonware now ?

No, but you'll find heaps of legally released games at Back 2 Roots and AmiSectorOne.

Aminet, if you're not familiar with it, should be your first stop for anything Amiga-related.

[Tajmaster]

Kit came yesterday and I spent several hours last night trying to use it but I seem to have a problem that might be hardware based, everything loads and works great until it comes to write the floppy, the floppy spins up but the head does not move, and thats how it sits until I turn if off. The floppy drive formats and copies discs via the workbench fine but just will not write a disc with easy adf package ....... could it be a bad drive in my A600 or the fact that Its a bog standard 1mb A600, I have tried using both DSDD and DSHD discs, nither will write ?
 
Any clues ? :confused:
 
Thanks in advance
 
Scott

Hi Scott
 
I dont think its the fact you have 1MB, but I could be wrong as I used mine on an A1200 which comes with 2MB as standard. If your Amiga can read and write disks via Workbench OK I would think that it isnt a hardware problem.
Are you booting off the EasyADF disk? Or are you booting from Workbench then inserting the EasyADF disk?
If not, it might be worth booting directly from the Easy ADF floppy disk and seeing if it works. (you still need to keep your Workbench disk at hand though).
 
Keep the thread updated with how you get on mate
 
Taj

[JC]

You gotta get some extra memory even if that's not causing your problem. I recall having issues with my 600 that disappeared once I got the memory expansion.

[bpb235]

You could try other software for writing adf files. I remember using a program named ADFBlitzer that worked ok for me with both reading and writing disks.
Check aminet or here:
http://amigamuseum.emu-france.com/Fichiers/Downloads/
(I also think there are other adf programs made)
You also mentioned some dms files. Try to get the dms program from aminet and try to write a dms file to floppy.

A personal experience I had with floppies is that DD disks are more reliable than HD disks when using them in DD diskdrives. I did get a lot more read/write errors when using HD disks on my amiga than with DD disks.
Another tip could be to try to find a cleaning disk for the diskdrive and give it a run.

I have a floppy cleaning kit and have ran that 3 times without any help. I've been messing the both DD & HD discs and both have the same problem. About 2 hours ago, I did finally get a ADF file to burn to a floppy but then the same problem has been happening ever since ...... I really think it may be DF0 as it's now started to error when formatting discs and copying discs using Workbench, I think 11 years in a FREEZING cold loft has done it's worst, I see the disc drives are cheap enough to buy, Are they easy to fit ?

Thanks again for all the help

Scott

[amyren]

I have a floppy cleaning kit and have ran that 3 times without any help. I've been messing the both DD & HD discs and both have the same problem. About 2 hours ago, I did finally get a ADF file to burn to a floppy but then the same problem has been happening ever since ...... I really think it may be DF0 as it's now started to error when formatting discs and copying discs using Workbench, I think 11 years in a FREEZING cold loft has done it's worst, I see the disc drives are cheap enough to buy, Are they easy to fit ?

Thanks again for all the help

Scott

Hope the cold loft thing is not the main reason for killing old hardware... I have a cold loft as well and sometimes the outside temperature drops down below minus 35 C. And I have 2 x C64's, 2.5 x A500, 1 x A1200 and one A4000 up there....

As for replacing the floppy drive, it shouldnt be to much trouble. Just make sure you get the  connectors in the right place when putting it together. I think there is no plastic frame for alignment around the connector on the drive, so it can easily be misplaced if you are not careful.

Hopefully this is the problem and changing the drive will fix it. But there is a small chance that it could be a faulty chip. I'm not sure how common this is, but on one A500 I got this problem with read/write errors. It got so bad that every time a disk was insterted, the A500 drive would spin and you heard the sound like the it was doing something on the disk. After this the disks were NDOS disks and not accessable on any amiga. It turned out to be a faulty CIA chip. If I remember correctly there are two CIA chips on the A500, and to test it I simply swapped the chips. (but maybe I remember wrong and that I used a chip from another A500, its a long time ago now)
But in any case, beware these chips. They are fragile, especially to static electricity. So make sure you are properly grounded.

[Colani1200]

I have a floppy cleaning kit and have ran that 3 times without any help. I've been messing the both DD & HD discs and both have the same problem.

Are you sure the disks are OK? Maybe the drive isn't the problem, but the disks?

I see the disc drives are cheap enough to buy, Are they easy to fit ?

As long it is an Amiga drive and the eject button matches, yes. Note that PC drives won't work in your Amiga (at least not without being modified).

[TheGoose]

I don't mean to hijack this thread, it is a related ADF question. That is, can ADFs be run directly on an Amiga some how? No conversion just run like they are on a Win UAE setup.