Zombie Posted June 2, 2006 Share Posted June 2, 2006 Hi everyone. Recently I ran across an original copy of X-COM: EU for the Amiga. That's right, it came with everything: original box, manual, 3 floppies, registration card, etc. What a find, and it only cost me $5 USD! Not bad, eh? Anyhow, I'd love to take a peek at the files on those discs and/or play that version. Is there a way to do this on my WinXP system? I'm thinking no, but someone probably knows more about this than myself. Any help would be greatly appreciated. - Zombie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jezulkim Posted June 2, 2006 Share Posted June 2, 2006 Nice find! And cheap. Anyway, it should work with WinUAE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaughter Posted June 2, 2006 Share Posted June 2, 2006 Good find Zombie! I'd advice the one Jezulkim suggests too. You'll also need the Amiga rom. The WinUAE site will have more information on that I believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombie Posted June 3, 2006 Author Share Posted June 3, 2006 Thanks greatly, guys! I'll try WinUAE to see if that works. *crosses fingers* - Zombie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ki-tat Chung Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 So, how'd it go? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombie Posted June 23, 2006 Author Share Posted June 23, 2006 Not good. A computer expert I'm not, so stuff like this takes time and a ton of patience. I installed WinUAE without any trouble, but the interface (oh, the interface!), leaves much to be desired. No help files means Zombie gets lost fast. Stumbled across this website which will probably help setting the thing up properly when the time comes. While running UAE I was able to change a setting to the Amiga 1200 (which is what the X-COM disks say), but it complains, saying: "One of the following System ROMS are required. Kickstart v3.1 (A1200) rev 40.68". So off I went searching the net again for info on Kickstart. From what I gather, Kickstart was the ROM chip used by the Amiga, and the info contained on that chip is available in a file format too. Great, so off I went again to search for the Kickstart files which should allow me to run UAE properly. Looked high and low (even in the wikipedia) and came up empty-handed for a place to download these elusive files. Where do I get them? Anyone have a link? Is it even legal to download them? - Zombie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomb Bloke Posted June 23, 2006 Share Posted June 23, 2006 It seems they're copyrighted, but available (for sale) at "https://www.amigaforever.com". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knan Posted June 24, 2006 Share Posted June 24, 2006 Anyway, Amiga floppies are not readable on a PC without: - special floppy controller (catweasel)or- two floppy drives in the same pc See https://www.amigaforever.com/kb/3-118.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombie Posted June 25, 2006 Author Share Posted June 25, 2006 Darn. I have Windows XP which prevents the use of a second floppy using the Disk2DFI software. And purchasing a controller just for reading the floppies is out of the question as I was after a low-cost solution to this problem. Guess I'll be after another floppy drive and the adfread software as the fix. - Zombie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomb Bloke Posted June 26, 2006 Share Posted June 26, 2006 Why are two floppy drives required to read the disks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knan Posted June 26, 2006 Share Posted June 26, 2006 Why are two floppy drives required to read the disks? Very obscure & evil timing trick of some sort. Took a stroke of genius to make a standard PC floppy controller do it at all - the Amiga floppy controller was more flexible, and wrote data encoded in ways the PC floppy controller does not understand. Thus the sacrificial goats bleeding onto the floppy cable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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