How To.. Make Amiga Floppies?


skeezix

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A buddy of mine just acquired an Amiga 500 (North American), monitor, joystick/mouse, etc. No external hard drive IIRC. Most of the floppies long ago died to disk-rot, so I'm assuming he will imedaitely run into a problem..

- I forget offhand (never having been an amiga owner) if the OS is on ROM; I'm pretty sure you need a floppy to boot an A500, or a hard drive with workbench and all that on floppy/hdd .. so is he toast, to begin with?

Now, to write ADF files to floppies.. is it true to this day that you need to perform trickery on the amiga itself?
ie:
http://www.amigaforever.com/kb/3-118.html
and
http://www.amigawiki.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/ADF_to_Amiga_Disk
seem to suggest so.. sucks!

(With the ST, you can write a .MSA or .ST to a floppy using a PC, and be good to go right away.. especially with the OS in ROM, makes it a cakewalk.)

So all you Amiga experts..

How can my buddy get some crazy gaming on his new Miggy? :)

jeff

(BTW .. it has a 'mono' jack on the back; at a guess.. is this a mono composite TV connector? If so.. seriously, wtf? _mono_? :) Wow :p)
 
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