Hey everybody!

[Mewcenary]

Hi all,

I'm a lapsed Amigan from the UK. Back in the day, I had an Atari 500 and subsequently A1200, which ended up in a Power Tower with 68030 accelerator + HD. Good times.

I still have my backed up HD from back then which I run in various emulators or on a MISTer, but do fancy getting some proper Amiga hardware again. And so I am here!

 

[Imperator]

Hello and welcome on AmiBay !

 

[Watson]

Welcome to Amibay!

 

[comraider]

Welcome! You've come to the right place to get your Amiga fix

 

[YouKnowWho]

@Mewcenary - Is another towerized 1200 in your future?

If you want to stay wedge, check out this masterpiece for inspiration:

Thread 'My A1200D Project'

Jul 30, 2010

So i've been busy beavering away for the last 4 months gathering parts for my A1200 Desktop and now i've decided to share what i've been doing and what I plan to do in time.

To start with I wanted to try and hack a slimline slot loading DVD drive into my A1200 and mount a 2.5" HDD underneath it, Its taken a fair bit of effort to accomplish but i've finally managed, and today I was happily pushing a CD into the back of my A1200 and it went in and was detected fine... I ejected... it came out.. and didn't scratch! Mission accomplished!


Video of the drive in action:-...

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Also...what is the best way to backup your Amiga partition as you've done?

 

[comraider]

Also...what is the best way to backup your Amiga partition as you've done?

I know you didn't ask me but a simple way is to use dd on Linux/Mac to make an image of a partition (or a whole drive).

 

[YouKnowWho]

Yes, I tried this exactly as in the video below and it didn't work. I got a command error, perhaps due to OS version? I'm on 10.12 here so that I can keep my local CS running.

 

[comraider]

I've never used a Mac so I'm not sure.. I've never had a problem doing this on Linux though. Do you have a Raspberry Pi you could try it on?

 

[Mewcenary]

@Mewcenary - Is another towerized 1200 in your future?

If you want to stay wedge, check out this masterpiece for inspiration:

Thread 'My A1200D Project'

Jul 30, 2010

So i've been busy beavering away for the last 4 months gathering parts for my A1200 Desktop and now i've decided to share what i've been doing and what I plan to do in time.

To start with I wanted to try and hack a slimline slot loading DVD drive into my A1200 and mount a 2.5" HDD underneath it, Its taken a fair bit of effort to accomplish but i've finally managed, and today I was happily pushing a CD into the back of my A1200 and it went in and was detected fine... I ejected... it came out.. and didn't scratch! Mission accomplished!


Video of the drive in action:-...

• Phipscube
• Replies: 280
• Forum: Legendary Threads of the Photo Booth

• 

Also...what is the best way to backup your Amiga partition as you've done?

I did the original backup about 25 years ago (!)

At the time, I think it was using some tooling that came with Amiga Forever which allowed a parallel port connection to the Amiga and it then slurped the files across. Nowadays I suspect there are much easier options!