I suspected as much. Thanks for confirming.

Yes, I have to get this setup for all of my Reels

Thanks. I am probably going to put in a gotek in the other slot.

It's on my list. Glad I'm not the only one who likes my tshirts 😃

Thanks, man!

@dave4shmups Yes Amiga's where very popular here in Europe in the late 80's and early 90's because they where extremely good value for money back then.

You're welcome!

Maybe I'll try the one from the A500 in it.

@@RetroHackShack Similarly it could be a slight incompatibility with the way you're creating disks, so I'd try disks created on the PC in the A500, then the A500 drive in the 2000 if you can!

Thanks

Thanks

I like gotek drives, but I like using originals too.

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Wings was awesome.

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I will try it and see. I can certainly burn a 1.2 rom. I thought Turrican II was after that though. It works on my 500 with 1.3 but not on my 2000.

Yeah. That's on my list, but I really want to use that accelerator card too just because it is so rare.

@@RetroHackShack I'm excited to see that episode as well!

So they wouldn't work on a rev 3 kickstart like I tried?

other thing is some games do not like the 3.1 rom and will only work with older roms

Yeah. Next time I pull this out I'll have a look.

I believe there is. Perhaps I can do a part 2 and show how to do that.

That would be awesome, thank you👍

Yes. I need to come back to this. Too much fun stuff to work on 😊

Yeah. I have a gotek ready to go. Sometimes I like the tacticalness of physical media though.

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Thanks!

Perhaps. Check the site I linked in the description. There is also a fairly active discord server.

@@RetroHackShack I ordered a Greaseweazle from Amiga-kit.

Thank you:

Unfortunately, it is not broken out. That would have been a lot easier. My gotek has been ready for an Amiga for over a year. Firmware already loaded and ready to go 😊

Thanks for the tips! The mouster will be in the next video when I get back to the Amiga. I have a different solution for HDMI that I will show and talk about why I didn't choose the video slot solution.

Oh and this is an NTSC machine.

Maybe an audio capacitor/resistor isn’t working quite right.

@@ColdRFusion Well the mod file that played on the test disk seems fine, but I will check it with mine. Defender of the crown afaik is one of the first Amiga games, I still think the hardware is fine. If some of the resistors or caps are off it will sound distorted, this sounds just slow but fine.

@@RetroHackShack Hmm, some pal games will sound faster on ntsc, like james pond, so that can not be it. But I would not worry about it to much. Changing the cap on the output is not necessary but from my experience you will get a bit more high freq.

All true… But the arduino interface solves the issue, and controls the normal pc drive to make it compatible with the Amiga formatting.

Wow, I’m like two paragraphs into this comment and pretty much everything this guy said is wrong. Our esteemed host never claimed MSDOS and Amiga formats were similar. Hence the project to control the drive. And you may be “pretty sure” you can just write a kernel driver to use the PC floppy controller, but you would be wrong. (You may not be aware, but MSDOS and Amiga formats are not the same.) And it gets worse - the Arduino is actually a perfectly cromulent solution to low-level floppy control, that bypasses the limitations of the PC FDC, and allows the payload to be sent from a common Windows PC over USB-to-serial. Watch more than 2 min of this, as painful as it might be, and I think you’ll come to realize he covers the differences accurately, the Arduino project is way better than previous solutions that required replacing the PC FDC with a new bespoke ISA card, and he even has a solution to the common configuration of a prevalent model floppy drive to expose the particular flavor of Shugart interface that Amiga systems want - in case you need to replace a broken Amiga drive with a common off-the-shelf model that is probably pre-configured for use on a PC.

@@nickwallette6201 Ah okay, you're definitely right! Using an arduino is so much easier than using the FDC interface and driver that that I released on github that can read and write the Amiga format. Although to be fair, it can't do GCR or long tracks, bitcell changes, but it was only a PoC thing anyway. Thanks for the info about MSDOS disks being different, I didn't really know that; despite being Amiga coder who wrote games and commercial copy protection. Oh God, that code I put up that can write MSDOS disks on a 1770 DFS on BBC Micro, must have just been a lucky guess. Don't you just hate it when that happens?

@@thewelder3538 So if you're that talented, then what's with the chip on your shoulder? Coming in here with all that "this guy is wrong about everything" -- even though he isn't -- and going on about how PC floppy drives are so different from Amiga floppy drives -- even though they aren't, except for the behavior of a couple of pins, which can often be changed, or at least can fairly easily be hacked. What's wrong with using an Arduino as a disk controller? How is that any different than how a lot of PC hardware works? Lots of controllers are based on a microcontroller. Even the keyboard controller is just a microcontroller. The only difference is this one's not attached to ISA / LPC. Most importantly, why do you need to go and write rude comments to the host of a video that explains how to use a project that was conceived and designed by someone else entirely? Does it make you feel smarter than everyone else to come in here guns blazing like that? I'll be straight with you. I haven't done any low-level programming of the PC FDC. I've written a file system library, but I've only recently started getting interested in what it would take to make a dedicated, standalone gadget box to write 360K/720K/1.2M/1.4M disk images straight from SD card to floppy drive, because that's less trouble than my current disk imaging solution -- a 386 with a ZIP drive. So, I'm not fully versed on what goes on between the abstracted read/write sys calls and the actual drive hardware. That's just never come up, I didn't need to know, and so I don't. My understanding is it isn't possible to get a standard PC controller to write content compatible with the Amiga DD disk format. From what I'm led to believe, it has been tried, and it doesn't work. I could very well be wrong about that. But if that's the case .... how come nobody has ever done it? There are so many one-off Linux distros out there that boot from a CD or USB drive, and are used to hack things or provide some niche functionality. If the FDC could be coaxed into writing Kickstart disks, why is there no ISO out there that does it? Why is there no MS-DOS program that writes directly to the hardware instead of using the limited DOS and BIOS calls? Why does the Catweasel exist if a software solution could've done nearly as much? If you've pulled it off using some clever workaround, hey man, my hat's off to you. That still doesn't license you to come in here any act like a jerk, but you have my respect nonetheless. I'm going to need to see a demo, or a link, or something, though. Otherwise, with that attitude, I've got no reason to believe you've broken a barrier that has vexed everyone else for 35 years, so I think I'm just going to assume you're full of wind. I am happy to be wrong about that though. That would be a fantastic thing for the Amiga community. You seem to like feeling superior, so please, make a fool of me. I would be delighted.

@@nickwallette6201 It's not a chip, maybe it came across more harshly than it should have. There's nothing technically wrong with using an arduino to do what's done on this video, it just seems a lot more trouble than is actually needed. Doesn't mean that it doesn't have advantages too, like control. In fact, if you wired it up to the motor and some other pins, you could actually do stuff like long tracks, reduce or increase the bitcell, like say a Kyroflux does. I've been very into this kinda stuff since I came across the very first weak bits protection on Sherston Software's stuff on the BBC Micro. The very first proper implementation of weak bits on a disk surface. I wrote some articles about it which are still available (with some oscilloscope reads of the fluxes). Then I got into proper exotic stuff, both creating it and cracking it. In order to do this with the PC FDC, you can do this with a system driver which Windows will load at boot time. The down side and it's a pretty big one, is that it essentially switches out the functionality of the existing FDC logic. There's a latch for doing this, but that means you can't evict the driver after load. The functionality is the functionality and that's what you end up with.