CrazyC's Sanitarium

Well, real life seems to be keeping me busy at the moment with little time for retro. Am just marking time really until Tanks Furry comes out next month - that looks cool.....

Having purchased a second A1200 to fulfil my plan of having one in the summerhouse for games etc, I sent the new motherboard off to TheCorfiot in Wales for some work, namely:
recap the board (of course), reinforce the power lines to the floppy drive power connector, remove the RF modulator, and add some power connections off the PSU plug so I could run power to the DVD drive and fans. I also asked for timing fixes as neither my B1260 or ACA1221 would boot with the new motherboard. I also ...

Well, I managed to get my hands on an a1200, whose motherboard (rev 1A) is now winging its way to The Corfiot in Wales for a recapping and some mods. Whilst I wait I have used my previous motherboard to create the a1200 that will go in the man cave - so just a basic a1200 with CF hard drive, and aca1221. Had all sorts of problems setting up the CF hard drive using PFS3 - turns out that using a card reader plugged into a different usb port sorted it though.... As I wont be using the indy ...

Well after all the hassle and not getting the few games I did all this for to work on the gotek I took that out, still had some issues with some games on the floppy versions, and then the floppy drive itself started playing up.
I have decided to park the a500 back in its box, and put a basic a1200 out in the man cave as a WHDLOAD machine. I have a spare CF - IDE adapter, ACA1221, and Goliath PSU, and have arranged top pick up a vanilla a1200 from a fellow member on here later this week. ...

Well, I got my a500 for the man cave, and so proceeded to try and write a few adfs to disk to play out there. Hmm, it all went a bit wrong, as whether it was in infected or corrupts adf one of them trashed my CF HD on my a1200.
I ended up having to go back to an earlier backup (hence why I like CF HDs) and reset up a few bits. As that is an 8GB CF, I thought I would set up a smaller system only one on a 4gb card for minimising risk when burning adfs for the a500.

Anyway, also ...