problem with Amiga 1200 and CF hard disk

badman · Newcomer Joined: 29 Jul 2012 Posts: 9

i recently purchased an Amiga 1200 from ebay and an aftermarket Compact Flash 4gb Hard drive from Amigakit.com

The problem is that the computer didnt come with any Workbench Amiga OS disks so i am unable to install the CF hard drive since i have nothing to install to it

is it possible to mount the CF disk using WinUAE and install Workbench using an Image from the internet?

thanks

desiv

badman · Newcomer Joined: 29 Jul 2012 Posts: 9

desiv · Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2012 4:28 pm Post subject:

How are your foreign language skills? Wink

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eva2VYxlYDE

This isn't bad, from what I can tell...

At least it gets you the concept..
Basically, this guy already has Classic WB setup in WinUAE.

He preps (wipes) the CF card in Windows, then loads WinUAE and preps (formats, etc) the CF card in WinUAE.
(The part on MaxTransfer and hitting ENTER (notice the setting didn't stick the first time he shows it) is important).

Now, it's possible that the CF card from Amigakit is already formatted and has the MaxTransfer set properly, I'm not sure...

Then he shows that he adds CF card in WinUAE to his ClassicWB setup and boots into that.
(Note: The partition names can't be the same, the Amiga doesn't like that. ClassicWB uses System, so don't name the CF Card partition System. He uses Sistema and then renames it to Workbench (not sure why he bothered to rename it tho...)

Then he uses DOpus to copy everything to the CF card.

That's basically it...

desiv

badman · Newcomer Joined: 29 Jul 2012 Posts: 9

I managed to get it installed.Thanks for your help.

I noticed i have a problem with the desktop not fitting the entire screen leaving black borders on the edge of my TV

is there anyway i can change the aspect ratio or overscan?

i tried overscan in pref but it didnt help

MIK UK · Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 7:39 am Post subject:

PAL high/low res does not fill the whole of the screen, no commercial games did either that used these standard screen modes. Not even an Atari ST fills the whole screen.

That's why all the standard commodore/phillips monitors allow you to stretch the picture horizontal & vertical if you wanted the picture to fit better.

You might be able to set your TV to 14:9 ratio if it allows this to make your picture a little bigger, maybe a couple of options for picture shift but that's all most standard TV's will do.
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A1200T, Apollo 1260, 32MB RAM, 3.1 ROMS, 4GB HD, Z4 Board, Picasso II, IOBlix (Serial/Parallel), Squirrel SCSI, 2X CD, IDE 100MB Zip Drive, OS - DOpus Magellan II. Plus an A500+ Yum.

badman · Newcomer Joined: 29 Jul 2012 Posts: 9

MIK UK · Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 2:44 pm Post subject:

That just doubles up the resolution frequency and then you would use the monitor to adjust the picture to make it fit better much like the classic monitors. Same thing has to be done with a PC when setting up different screen modes for the first time...
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A1200T, Apollo 1260, 32MB RAM, 3.1 ROMS, 4GB HD, Z4 Board, Picasso II, IOBlix (Serial/Parallel), Squirrel SCSI, 2X CD, IDE 100MB Zip Drive, OS - DOpus Magellan II. Plus an A500+ Yum.

desiv · Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 5:20 pm Post subject:

It can depend on the FlickerFixer too..
I have the el-cheapo GBS-8200 and a custom cable, and that device itself let's you tweak the screen settings a bit.
That, combined with my monitors settings let me center it fairly well...

I'm not sure about the Indivisions, but I would think they would have similar features..

desiv

Acid · Amiga Junkie Joined: 02 Nov 2010 Age: 36 Posts: 400

My indivision 1 almost fills the screen entirely, im not sure how much of that is down to the monitor auto adjusting it though.