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ScuzzBlog: Diaries June 2017

Entry 25th June 2017: Post: 2


Amiga 1060 Sidecar


Update

Hi

Have you downloaded and tried to create the sidecar floppy disk that is 
an edited version of 1.2 or 1.3 Workbench.

http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/a1060

You basically create a back up copy of your 1.2 or 1.3 Workbench disk 
and then run the application to create a boot disk for the sidecar. When 
you run the sidecar boot disk from the Amiga you should hear a beep 
noise from the sidecar and then a window opens that tells you that you 
have connected to the sidecar. That is where on my sidecar I get varying 
degrees of success which suggests a hardware problem. If you put any 
floppy in the 1060 it will be reported as a none DOS disk that is where 
you need the 1060 DOS disk by Commodore to be read.

What happened to me is that I could only create a 1.2 version of the 
sidecar boot disk as the 1.3 version fills the disk and I cannot get it 
to create a 1.3 version. Also only one of those disks from the Amiga 
Resource site worked for me because in most of the versions it tries to 
write the new content of the disk to RAM and I don't have enough RAM. 
One of the versions does work because it allows you to select and delete 
contents from the Workbench disk so you can get everything on the disk.

Hope that makes sense. But yes with the Amiga floppy customised in the 
Amiga 1000 it is possible to check that the 1060 is working because if 
it runs properly you should finish up with a DOS prompt on the screen 
that lets you run the disk I don't have on the 1060.

This is what I have progressed furthest to

http://www.scuzzscink.com/amiga/0617/1060_02.jpg

This is the kind of error I am getting

http://www.scuzzscink.com/amiga/0617/1060_03.jpg

Again more progress

http://www.scuzzscink.com/amiga/0617/1060_04.jpg

And then, sorry for poor image,  but generally I only get this far and 
then it hangs and no prompt

http://www.scuzzscink.com/amiga/0617/1060_01.jpg

It points to the disk in the 1060 being of the wrong type. I have tried 
many versions of DOS with no success. Sadly some of the time it just 
doesn't get past the RAM check.

But as you can see, by creating a disk on the Amiga 1000 you should be 
able to communicate with the 1060.


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