[torontocbm] Re: External CD-ROM for Amigas?
- From: Jason Kolodziejczak <jayk2k@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 13:06:59 -0400
That'd be the way I'd give it a go.
On 2014-04-14, at 11:34 AM, Leif Bloomquist <leif@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have the OS on a CF card on my A600, what about the trick of moving the
card to another Amiga (or even a PC with WinUAE) and installing stuff that
way?
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On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Ian Colquhoun <icolquhoun@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> That's right. Floppies only on the external connector. Getting a CDROM
> working on a 600 would, shall we say, be challenging.
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Leif Bloomquist
> <leif@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm not sure - I'm a bit of an Amiga noob. I assume the external drive
>> connector on the back of the 600 only works with floppies then?
>>
>>
>> --
>> Leif Bloomquist | leif@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | +1 416-737-2328 | Check out my
>> blog! http://www.jammingsignal.com
>>
>> "Every choice, no matter how small, begins a new story." - xkcd
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Steve Gray <sjgray@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Depends.. Does your A600 have an added SCSI interface? Standard 600's
>>> use IDE hard drives and only have a PCMCIA port. Amiga CD's are ISO 9660 so
>>> you should be able to read it on a PC, but then you'd have to write the
>>> files to Amiga Floppy, so you'd need CrossDOS.
>>>
>>> I have an Amiga 2000 with CD-ROM drive that I could bring.
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>>
>>> *From:* Leif Bloomquist <leif@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> *To:* "torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> *Sent:* Monday, April 14, 2014 10:11:17 AM
>>> *Subject:* [torontocbm] External CD-ROM for Amigas?
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> A request for Thursday. I picked up a network card for my Amiga 600 to
>>> experiment with Amiga networking (a new topic for me), and the software was
>>> supplied on...a CD-ROM <facepalm>.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have an external CD-ROM that would work on an Amiga 600 that
>>> I could borrow for the evening to get the software installed?
>>>
>>> (Or is there a better way?)
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> -Leif
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Leif Bloomquist | leif@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | +1 416-737-2328 | Check out
>>> my blog! http://www.jammingsignal.com/
>>>
>>>
>>> "Every choice, no matter how small, begins a new story." - xkcd
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Ian Colquhoun <icolquhoun@xxxxxxxxx>
>
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