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Re: set up to read floppies on X1000?
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 7:52 am
by Raziel
nbache wrote:
tonyw wrote:
And after all that, what do you get? The ability to read old Amiga disks which are all available on line anyway?
I sure hope all my floppies with backups and old letters and other personal documents aren't available online
.
Oh boy...i sure hope too (that goes for my data, of course)
Buy a CatWeasel instead.
That, however, is very true - if only you can find an Amiga floppy drive.
Hmm, but i thought that exactly THIS is the great advantage of having a catweasel installed...no need for a specially designed Amiga floppy drive...at least, i'm using a perfectly normal 3.5" PC floppy drive to read all my Amiga floppy disks AND PC disks AND all other sorts of 3.5" disks from numerous strange platforms (if i'd had some)
The magic of coping with the different filesystems and block structures is done with the driver thru the catwesel, or am i wrong?
Re: set up to read floppies on X1000?
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 7:42 pm
by nbache
Raziel wrote:Hmm, but i thought that exactly THIS is the great advantage of having a catweasel installed...no need for a specially designed Amiga floppy drive...at least, i'm using a perfectly normal 3.5" PC floppy drive to read all my Amiga floppy disks AND PC disks AND all other sorts of 3.5" disks from numerous strange platforms (if i'd had some)
The magic of coping with the different filesystems and block structures is done with the driver thru the catwesel, or am i wrong?
No, you may be right. I keep forgetting the Catweasel progressed since my V3
.
Best regards,
Niels
Re: set up to read floppies on X1000?
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 8:39 pm
by RobMattin
tonyw wrote:Neither the hardware design nor the software task is trivial. Granted, the software might be written for nothing by a fan with nothing better to do, but a hardware interface to a PC floppy needs to be designed and mass produced. Can you still get PC floppies with 40-pin connectors?
I don't think you'd be able to afford it, unless someone like Trevor paid for the hardware design out of the goodness of his heart.
And after all that, what do you get? The ability to read old Amiga disks which are all available on line anyway?
Buy a CatWeasel instead.
How much of the hardware side can be dealt with by the XMOS? The Xorro card already exists, it just needs the components to be added. Maybe the physical side is trivial, that was supposed to be the point with Xena wasn't it.
Re: set up to read floppies on X1000?
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2013 6:54 pm
by zappa2009
Xena must only emulate an old slow A4000D IDE. Then add an Catweasel MK2 .
Re: set up to read floppies on X1000?
Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 6:23 pm
by Christopher Follett
We have added Catweasel X1000 config to the Catweasel product page.
When you configure, select X1000, you will then get the cable that allows the catweasel to work on an X1000.
It works flawless with reading / writing floppies.
EDIT:- Page seems to be bust at the moment, wont let you add X1000 extras. Will get it sorted A.S.A.P.
Re: set up to read floppies on X1000?
Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 7:13 pm
by zappa2009
Ah good to hear that the X1000-IDE is compatible as the A1200/A4000 IDE.
If someone want mor than Floppy better buy an MK4 Catweasel (Floppy and SID and Joystickports
).
Otherwise an MK2 connect to the IDE for only Floppy-usage.
Re: set up to read floppies on X1000?
Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 12:36 pm
by Christopher Follett
zappa2009 wrote:Ah good to hear that the X1000-IDE is compatible as the A1200/A4000 IDE.
If someone want mor than Floppy better buy an MK4 Catweasel (Floppy and SID and Joystickports
).
Otherwise an MK2 connect to the IDE for only Floppy-usage.
MK4 PCI is no longer manufactured. So MK2 is the only Catweasel available now.
Re: set up to read floppies on X1000?
Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 1:05 pm
by ddni
Is it only dos disks that can be read, or are copy protected game disks readable too?
Re: set up to read floppies on X1000?
Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 6:43 pm
by Raziel
ddni wrote:Is it only dos disks that can be read, or are copy protected game disks readable too?
You need special software (WHDLoad) to rip those disks to HDD, but yes, it can
Re: set up to read floppies on X1000?
Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 7:04 pm
by ddni
So that means that copy protected games either need to be installed with WHDLoad or ripped to .adf
How far away are we from being able to insert the floppy and have it load a game as we used to on our A500s (all be it from a seamless UAE environment)?
This for me would be a great feature to attract the die hard classic users towards NG Amigas.
Maybe this isn't even an aspiration?