Had Enough

[sblurter]

Ok ive decided ive had enough.
The last straw of my new Amiga adventure has broke the camels back so to speak.
I have been trying for the best part of 5 hours to get some adf files working with my newly aquired kit.
Out of 30 odd games downloaded in adf format i have managed to get 3 to work.
Now when i write an adf file to floppy it goes through the motions but the disk remains blank.
I have reinstalled the software, but no difference.

I also have a cf hard drive with WHDLoad installed but wont run hardly any games and i cant afford an accelerator to enable them to run.

I also have a 600, but we wont go into the problems im having with that.

OK rant over, looks like some Amiga bits for sale shortly.

 

[fitzsteve]

Hi,

Probably find the Disks are knackered, I found that with EasyADF - it dosen't give you any message to tell you that its failed or a reason why oh:

TSGui will do, you can grab that of Aminet, it will fail if you have a bad cylinder - of course it wont solve the problem if the Disks are in fact knackered.

Save up your pennies and grab a trapdoor Ram upgrade when you can afford it, they do come along at resonable prices if you keep an eye out.

All the best..
Steve.

 

[PymerOne]

Dear SBlurter,

ram upgrade is very much worth saving for.
About disks....either all disks are bad (recycled gamedisks are infamous for their defects, thats true) , or could your drive be a bit finnicky?

Grtz, PymerOne.

 

[Tajmaster]

Ok ive decided ive had enough.
The last straw of my new Amiga adventure has broke the camels back so to speak.
I have been trying for the best part of 5 hours to get some adf files working with my newly aquired kit.
Out of 30 odd games downloaded in adf format i have managed to get 3 to work.
Now when i write an adf file to floppy it goes through the motions but the disk remains blank.
I have reinstalled the software, but no difference.

I also have a cf hard drive with WHDLoad installed but wont run hardly any games and i cant afford an accelerator to enable them to run.

I also have a 600, but we wont go into the problems im having with that.

OK rant over, looks like some Amiga bits for sale shortly.

Sorry to hear you are having a problem Ive been there myself and wanted to throw my Amigas out of the nearest window!

Why not try putting an ADF onto a disk that you know works? As Steve says it could just be knackered disks Ive got hundreds of floppy disk, most are knackered though, probably because of poor storage or age.

Also, out of interest, which Amiga are you trying to use the CF hard drive with?

Zetr0 has a menu system that is good for systems with low ram that may help

Hang in there dude, Im sure we can help you out

 

[sblurter]

Im using a bog standard A1200.

 

[rkauer]

Most Amiga games have a copy protection that "shows" the floppy as blank when you try to read it from Workbench/Amiga DOS environment.

Write the disk and then try to boot from it.

Also remember that around 90% of Amiga games are supposed to run on unexpanded A500 machines and goes bananas when booted in a A1200.

Best way to play old games on A1200 is via WHDLoad, which is a package with all needed tools to make those obstinate games to run directly from HD!

WHDLoad is a degrader, HD-install patch and Workbench-friendly solution if you have more than just the 2Mb chip RAM.

 

[Tajmaster]

Have you setup the CF card yourself? Or was it pre-setup, like the ones that appear on eBay?

 

[Geraldine]

Also, (if you have a CF slot) you could prep your CF Card in your PC via WinUAE and install the ADFs from there. I am trying to do a similar thing with a SCSI hard drive. Once done take the CF out and stick it back into your Amiga, job done!

I know how you feel though, at times it can be one step forward and two steps back using equipment as old as we do, but do stick with it. There are fewer things finer than watching an Amiga come to life, especially one that has been dead for years! :roll:

 

[sblurter]

Thanks but at times it feels as though i dont want to keep asking questions on her, people must get fed up with it.

 

[fitzsteve]

Thanks but at times it feels as though i dont want to keep asking questions on her, people must get fed up with it.

Hey, feel free to ask away - we're glad to help

 

[bebek]

Before writing ADF I always format disc with X-copy with verification on so I can see bad sectors if there are any.

 

[jvdbossc]

Feel free to ask mate

Please replace caps, clean floppy drive. Check if using right rom and right chipset aga/ecs first. Write 2 times with tsgui.lha found on aminet.


I somethimes have very negative feelings about this whole retro and for me mainly amiga thing as well, since the failure rate seems to get higher I had 3 cap failures on my a600 on different boards. It feels somethimes that this hobby is taking more time to keep stuff working properly or a bit, then delivering pleasure.

Old age is getting to Amiga I think time that the hardware emulation guys like natami etc come up with a real product - I might have better invested in a minimig. I think a cat or a dog could be less...

Or starting from the point where you first have the hardware revised.

I do not mean to offend anyone with this.

 

[AndyLandy]

Before writing ADF I always format disc with X-copy with verification on so I can see bad sectors if there are any.

Amen to that! I've got a box full of old disks that I'm slowly running through X-Copy. I only keep disks that successfully format twice.

@sblurter: I sympathise, I really do. We all have issues crop up from time to time -- Today my A3000's SCSI is playing silly buggers with me. Best thing to do is take a break from it all, clear your head, then try again later.

If you're serious about turning ADFs back into floppies, I'd definitely go down the route of format-and-verify your disks first. I use 'transadf' from Aminet to go between ADFs and actual floppies. It's a tiny little CLI util that does what it says on the tin. It's nice because it tells you what it's doing.

Good luck!

 

[fitzsteve]

Yep like these guys I can confess that its not without ups and downs this hobby, you may have read in another thread I just fried a 16gb SSD I was going to use for my latest A1200 venture, with that dead I thought I'd move on to install the PowerFlyer Gold I recently bought but Gah! It wont have any of it lol oh:

Keep your spirits up if you can, for what its worth writing ADF's back to Disk was what made me put my Amiga's in the loft 8 years ago, WHDLoad and a Ram upgrade = a whole lot more fun and less greif

Steve.

 

[Tajmaster]

If you are willing to post me your CF card Id be happy to put a clean WB install on it as well as a working WHDLoad install with a few games for you?

It doesnt solve the RAM/accelerator issue but at least the games you are wanting will be on the card and ready to go when you get some RAM

 

[Mr B]

Also remember that around 90% of Amiga games are supposed to run on unexpanded A500 machines and goes bananas when booted in a A1200.

I must have been lucky, or ignorant. I never had any problems gaming on the A1200 that i wouldn't rather blame wacky software / unreliable media for. Nut you are without a doubt right, most games were designed for the A500, and have no idea what the new hardware in the A1200 does.

Thanks but at times it feels as though i dont want to keep asking questions on her, people must get fed up with it.

Keep asking, i know i do, and people still respond in a polite maner. I have no idea what it takes to make people start ignore you at these forums. From the looks of it, everyone around have been blessed, or cursed, with angelic patience.

If you are willing to post me your CF card Id be happy to put a clean WB install on it as well as a working WHDLoad install with a few games for you?

Would you mind a whole lot if i request that you move to Sweden? I'll provide a list of the 100 games or so i want on my drive... ;- )
Neat offer. Now all we need is to find the guy a memory expansion thats dirt cheap.
B!

 

[Merlin]

Thanks but at times it feels as though i dont want to keep asking questions on her, people must get fed up with it.

That's the reason we are here, so that other members can help you sort out issues with older retro kit.

 

[ChrisUnionNJ]

SBlurter it's a adventure just step back do something else also I use blitzADF and have had no problems with it..

Chris

 

[Geraldine]

Thanks but at times it feels as though i dont want to keep asking questions on her, people must get fed up with it.

Good GOD! :roll: I could have wrote that!

 

[PymerOne]

Ask a lot of questions now, answer questions later.
ya gotta learn sometime, no?
Those that answer the questions here do so because they like that, don't deny them that little pleasure

Grtz, PymerOne.