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Catweasel Mk2 and Vamp EIDE On Standalone?

Vojin Vidanovic
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07 Oct 2018 10:39

Dear Apollo,

I do have MK2 Anniversary edition, bundled with EIDE convertor (A1-x1000 floppy kit by "No 1 Amiga Store")

Since I find very little use on x1000, I wonder could this be a magic solution to

It has OS3 drivers and with PC HDD floppy claims to read and write almost anything there.

So could standalone + EIDE 99 make use of the
- EIDE SSD or SATA2EIDE SSD
- EIDE DVD-RW or Teac CD-RW
- Catweasel mk2 with this IDE connector and PC HD floppy
- EIDE backup classic HDD

Only needs a case to support all that :-)(Stephen, where are thou?)


Andy Hearn

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08 Oct 2018 11:19

I've seen a vamp2 in an A2000 with a buffered 4x ide adapter attached running a CD drive and a "disk-on-module" card if I recall correctly.

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so anything you can stick on a normal A600/1200 IDE port you can plug into the vampire by the looks of things.
so the first two and last things would seem to be covered out of the box. the third thing is interesting, and maybe a way of plugging an amiga floppy drive into a standalone board...?


Vojin Vidanovic
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08 Oct 2018 12:00

Andy Hearn wrote:

  the third thing is interesting, and maybe a way of plugging an amiga floppy drive into a standalone board...?
 

 
  Yes, I have seen Quake with Quake CDDA and decided that 4x buffered EIDE is what Standalone needs.
 
  mk2 would work instantly if we had a clockport, and it can use plain PC HD floppy, yes. Since we dont have a clockport there is some clockpport2ide converter that was dubbed "AmiKit x1000 floppy mk2 anniversary bundle" or such.

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If you check Jen's posts in popular Amiga forums he often uses words like "electrickery" and "wiesel", terms which hark back to the original Catweazle TV series. Jen's first Catweasel design supported the A1200, big-box Amigas equipped with Zorro slots and PC's with ISA slots. He went on to create several Catweasel versions and device drivers were written for AmigaOS 4 by Kjetil Hvalstrand (NutsAboutAmiga) for the Mk IV model based on the original cwfloppy Linux driver created by Michael Krause. Amiga Developer Ian Gledhill later created additional device drivers under GPL for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS.  With the inclusion of RunInUAE in the latest AmigaOS 4.1 updates we decided it would be a good idea if the A1-X1000 could also read standard Amiga floppy disks. The Mk IV model, which works well in the AmigaONE X1000, is now out of stock and there are no plans for any future productions runs.

Ian Gledhill - Amiga Developer

However, the good news is there are stocks of the Catweasel Mk2 model and additional units can be manufactured. With the hardware side sorted we still needed device driver software and who better than Ian Gledhill the developer of the most recent drivers for all Next-Generation Amiga flavours. Although this is predominantly for the A1-X1000, owners of other Next-Generation machines will also benefit. The Catweasel drivers are now complete and AmigaKit will be stocking the new Catweasel Mk 2 bundle with the device driver and interface cable in the New Year. Details will be provided on the AmigaKit website when the Catweasel kits are available.

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