kellylawrence
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Hey everyone! I recently picked up the Slim model of Lotharek's HxC Floppy emulator for my Amiga 500. http://www.lotharek.pl/product.php?pid=91
No matter what I try, all I get is the standard "Insert Amiga Workbench 1.3" screen. No "disks" load off my SD card through the emulator, nor am I presented with any display to select a disk to load, such as the screen seen on page 23 of the User Manual.
So far, I've done the following:
It should be noted that there are two different AUTOBOOT.hfe files I can place on the SD card. One for "Emulator_as_DF0", and another for "Emulator_as_DF1". I've tried both of these files, but neither one has solved my problem.
I have read that you can change Jumper Settings for the emulator as seen on page 8 of the User Manual, but I can only assume this set of instructions applies to non-slim models. I would also assume that the Jumper settings influence which AUTOBOOT.hfe file to use, as mentioned above.
With all of that said, I've tried starting my Amiga with the SD card already in the emulator, as well as starting it without the SD card in, then inserting the SD card once I'm presented with the "Insert Amiga Workbench 1.3" screen. Neither option seems to change anything.
I'm sure it's just a user error here, and some matter of me missing or not reading certain instructions correctly. Either way though, it'll really suck to have spent a few hundred bucks, and not really have things work. Any help would be great appreciated!
No matter what I try, all I get is the standard "Insert Amiga Workbench 1.3" screen. No "disks" load off my SD card through the emulator, nor am I presented with any display to select a disk to load, such as the screen seen on page 23 of the User Manual.
So far, I've done the following:
- Removed the original floppy disk drive, and put the HxC floppy emulator in it's place.
- Freshly formatted my 32GB MicroSDHC card to Fat32 as per instructions. (It was already formatted to Fat32, but I thought a fresh format might fix any bugs)
- Tried updating the Slim SD HxCFloppyEmulator firmware to v2.0.2.2 as per instructions, but nothing seemed to happen. No beeps, no prompt, etc. So... that might be done I guess?
- Added appropriate HXCSDFE.CFG and AUTOBOOT.hfe files to my SD card, as well as a copy of a game in .HFE format.
It should be noted that there are two different AUTOBOOT.hfe files I can place on the SD card. One for "Emulator_as_DF0", and another for "Emulator_as_DF1". I've tried both of these files, but neither one has solved my problem.
I have read that you can change Jumper Settings for the emulator as seen on page 8 of the User Manual, but I can only assume this set of instructions applies to non-slim models. I would also assume that the Jumper settings influence which AUTOBOOT.hfe file to use, as mentioned above.
With all of that said, I've tried starting my Amiga with the SD card already in the emulator, as well as starting it without the SD card in, then inserting the SD card once I'm presented with the "Insert Amiga Workbench 1.3" screen. Neither option seems to change anything.
I'm sure it's just a user error here, and some matter of me missing or not reading certain instructions correctly. Either way though, it'll really suck to have spent a few hundred bucks, and not really have things work. Any help would be great appreciated!
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