In of this series we talked about my failed attempts to recover data from an Amiga Hard Drive using a USB/IDE adapter. Then in we setup on a Windows XP machine connected to the Amiga over a Serial cable: By the end we could launch Amiga Explorer and see my 4 Hard Drive partitions. We were tantalisingly close! The next step was to copy our ‘Kickstart’ ROM from the real Amiga to a file that we could use in: Right-click Kick.rom and select Copy: Paste the resulting file into C: Documents and Settings All Users Documents Amiga Files WinUAE: Right-click each HDF (.hdf) file and select Copy: Paste the resulting files into C: Documents and Settings All Users Documents Amiga Files WinUAE: Note: At 15MB MyndHD was the smallest file and, although the screenshot suggests 50 minutes, in reality it was a few hours.
In total the 4 files took the best part of 2 overnight sessions to copy over. Suggestions on the forums are that you can increase the baud rate from 19200 to get better throughput, however, I couldn’t get any other settings to work. Back in you’ll remember that I’d brought my rusty Amiga 1200 home from my parents with the idea that I might be able to recover some lost/early projects from the 170MB Hard Drive inside. At first I attached the Hard Disk to Windows using a USB/IDE adapter, however, while it did appear in Device Manager I couldn’t get WinUAE to add it. For a second attempt I was now trying Amiga Explorer, a USB/DB9(M) Serial adapter and a DB9(F)/DB25(F) Serial cable as shown: On my XP machine ( ) I’d installed the drivers for the USB/Serial adapter, Amiga Explorer and WinUAE.
On the Amiga ( ) I’d already reduced the and setup the as directed by Amiga Explorer. Next up is setting up the Serial Connection and ‘installing’ AExplorer on the Amiga Note: I’ve continued to use the XP/Amiga icons below to make it clearer on which OS the action was taken. Check the COM Port Number assigned to the USB/Serial adapter: Check the Amiga Explorer connection properties are set to use the same port: Right-click Amiga Explorer, select Setup and click OK: Click Yes to confirm Amiga OS 2.0 or higher (grey Workbench): Click OK to comfirm the Amiga Serial Preferences are set as shown (which we did ): Next we’re prompted to run a command on the Amiga: Right-click Workbench bar, select Execute Command, type cli and click OK This opens an Amiga Shell window. Type the following and hit return: Type SER: to RAM:Setup Click OK on the Amiga Explorer dialog The command completes: A second prompt to run a command on the Amiga: Type the following into the Shell window and hit return: RX RAM:Setup Click OK and the the AExplore files are copied to the Amiga: Once the copy is finished, on the Amiga, the command completes: We are also rewarded by a message saying we’ve been successful and that we’ve one last task to run on the Amiga. (Click OK to close the message): Open the Ram Disk and the Workbench Disk and drag the AExplore file to the latter as suggested: Double-click AExplore and the program starts up with a confirmation of the settings in use: Now when we launch Amiga Explorer we can see the Hard Drive partitions: Time for another break, I feel, if only to make this a trilogy.
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П˜‰ See you next time Filed under,. Whilst “Up North” for a project back in March I stayed a few nights with my parents over in Ellesmere Port. During the stay they announced that they were clearing out junk and asked if I wanted my old Amiga 1200.
Amiga Explorer Serial Number Lookup
I thought that maybe I could extract files from the Hard Drive and rediscover some of my early/lost projects – if it still worked? In the end I came home with the Amiga as well as a ZX Spectrum 48k, 48k+ and a 128k+2 – Stevie was thrilled.
П™‚ Years of storage in a damp shed, however, hadn’t been kind to the Amiga and when I opened it up it didn’t look good. I did have to laugh when I realised that the Hard Drive was secured in place using Blu Tack though – 90s engineering at its best.