One small step for Natami. One large step for Amigaland!

[actung_bab]

I agree with Darrin. The royal wedding was awesome! Screw the republicans, they are just resentful that we kicked sir robert the bruce's arse :roflmao:

yes it was awsome i stayed up to nearly 1am who said romance was dead i was very pround the second kiss was cool too nice they love there fellow brits that shone through
Hopefully come out again to new zealand prince william was big hit here and very kind words to those lost family members in pike river coal mine disaster and chch quake

[Tripitaka]

Natami looks cool, I gotta have one. As for the royal wedding, errr.... We got a lot of spending cuts this year and we end up paying for this too, PAH! Great for the rest of the world, you didn't foot the bill like the British taxpayer.

[Louis Dias]

http://www.natami.net/knowledge.php?b=1¬e=37433

Day 3, games running.

[Forcie]

Day 4: Banshee AGA and Elite

http://www.natami.net/knowledge.php?b=1¬e=37524

[runequester]

Day 4: Banshee AGA and Elite
 
http://www.natami.net/knowledge.php?b=1¬e=37524

Maybe this is just me, but I am rather excited that you'll be able to use floppies. Gotta find a cheap PC floppy drive or two online when the time comes.

[trekiej]

I know floppies are sort of dead. Amazon still sells internal and external usb units.
I will have to check to see if they still sell the original style.

[runequester]

I know floppies are sort of dead. Amazon still sells internal and external usb units.
I will have to check to see if they still sell the original style.

yeah, I figure it'll involve scavenging used parts. Though I wonder if a USB floppy would work too

[desiv]

I still have several floppy drives and I actually bought a few hundred sealed blank DSDD floppy disks a bit ago...

Long Live the Floppy Disk!!  :-)

Thanx for the updates, looks good...

desiv

[runequester]

I need to pick up a decent stash of them.
My current pile is a mix of old disks from whoknowswhen, and a small handful of HD ones from Best Buy (they were highly amused I bought 'em).
 
Problem is... they are dirt cheap plastic and pretty much disintegrate after a short while.

[commodorejohn]

yeah, I figure it'll involve scavenging used parts. Though I wonder if a USB floppy would work too

USB floppies won't do - to the computer they're standard USB mass storage, so the NatAmi floppy controller couldn't directly interface with them. But I'm betting any standard 3.5" floppy drive should work - you can get them in the dozens from your local recycling center for next to nothing.

[trekiej]

Hopefully this helps.
http://www.amazon.com/Imation-3-5IN-1-44MB-Preformatted-100-Pack/dp/B00004Z6XV/ref=wl_it_dp_o?ie=UTF8&coliid=I10EGOLFUF8EW2&colid=3MWJ31DLDCBO1

USB appears to be main in FDD. You can find the original types.
My ex-employer sells new ones.

[Retro_71]

Rune too bad you don't live near me i could give them to you. I have about 50 Floppy drives.
Great News since  I have about 3000 Amiga Floppy disks (which i am now going thru) i have a few hundred blank DD ones but now i can use HD ones without worrying about extra wear and tear using them on old Amiga drives.

Don't know about anyone else but i am really excited about these posts although a nice Vid would help calm me down.. :lol:

[haywirepc]

I think its awesome that you can read and write amiga disks on this.

I'm excited too, but I'll be more excited when they have a final price the board will cost and a release date.
 
I'm pretty sure I will be buying one of them when available. My 1200 died 6 months ago and I really don't feel like rebuilding another one with old aging hardware. For the price of a 1200 with accellerator,tower conversion, rtg, network, and so on....This is much better.
 
Steven

[smerf]

When you consider the average price on eBay for an 060 board (£280 & upwards) then try finding a SubWay USB board (£70 and upwards) and all the other bits n bobs you'd need to match the NatAmi then to me 800 Euros is a reasonable price and I sure as hell want one of these little beauties...

Hi,

@Franko,

You are probably one of the few individuals who would probably pay $1800 for one of the new  900 Mhz Z80 computers with a FPGA VGA/EGA/BCB board.

smerf

[smerf]

It's Royal Pass The Sick Bag And Throw A Brick Through The Telly Day... :flak:

It's still not ruddy safe to switch the TV back on, they're showing repeats/highlights & it's on every ruddy news channel, TV has been unplugged for today... :furious:

PS: I live in the Twilight Zone, so you'll usually find me here, methinks you must've took a wrong turning when you passed The Outer Limits...

Hi,

@Franko,

Know what you mean.

This is just another way for the Brits to screw an American

smerf

[runequester]

I think its awesome that you can read and write amiga disks on this.
 
I'm excited too, but I'll be more excited when they have a final price the board will cost and a release date.
 
I'm pretty sure I will be buying one of them when available. My 1200 died 6 months ago and I really don't feel like rebuilding another one with old aging hardware. For the price of a 1200 with accellerator,tower conversion, rtg, network, and so on....This is much better.
 
Steven

yeah, even if this does end up rather expensive.. compared to the stuff we use otherwise, not so bad. I've probably sunk about a grand into my 1200, once you count all the different peripherals and whatnot.
 
I know plenty of people who've spent far far more