Posted by Colin Wilson on 05/02/07 23:33

> Are you just looking at using the Amiga for productivity stuff, where you
> can retarget the graphics or will games also be a requirement?

I'm not really looking to use it at all at present, it's been in the
loft for probably 2-3 years now from purchase... I was just thinking
ahead to a time when I might want to resurrect it and have a little
play on the real thing again, rather than WinUAE and AIAB :-p

> If not, why not?!!!! :)

Space considerations at the moment... my 'puter room is a little
overstuffed already, considering most of the time I can't see enough
carpet to get a hoover in there :-}

> I think Amigakit.com had some in but the prices were a bit frightening.

I'll bookmark it all the same for future reference :-p

> >Shame, i've probably got close to a thousand disks here still (mainly
> >PD) - too far for me to hand 'em over in person, and probably too
> >awkward to post :-}
> That's very kind, but not a problem. My Mrs has never managed to make me
> sell the miggy, even for 2 weeks, but we are at bursting point with bits
> and pieces that Angus thought might come in handy for it one day. :)

<cough> ditto </cough>

> >Have you ever figured a way to read miggy disks on a PC ?
> Well, pd stuff should be easy enough to back up on 720k pc disks or CD,
> zips or whatever. ADF or dms might be the way to go. And obviously a
> networked Amiga makes life simpler still. If you mean commercial games
> then WHDLoad is your friend.

Backing them up like that assumes you have (a) a mig, and (b) can
network it* :-} - I meant in terms of reading them on a PC without
access to mig

* I did have a 2/10Mbit (?) PCMCIA card I could have used, but don't
know what happened to the drivers

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