IainGrimm

Nice condition Amiga 600, have EasyADF for it for transferring emulator files back to disk C64 number 2 as I also had a breadbin. Both this C64 and my original 84 Bredbin have died over the past 6 months, now replaced with another C64c. Also have an Action Replay Mk 4, Vic 1540 Disk Drive, standard C2n & a Mills C2n which has the lights for fine tuning to get succesful load virtually every time. I also have a nice condition 1531 tape deck with the adapter to connect to a C64. Storage area for all my games since we moved house, these are in the converted loft. Shelves on left side top and bottom are all C64 tapes and original disks and the bottom at the back are all my big box games like Rick Dangerous and Last Ninja 2 (99% of these games were bought throughout the 80's and early 90's, all my original stuff), on floor under those are all my Megadrive carts & CD's and the few Master Games I have and the 2 shelves on the right is my ever growing Spectrum collection. This is how things are setup on the 3rd floor presently, C64 and Spectrum 128 +2A next to each other sharing a TV. To the right I have another table with Amiga and a large Sont CRT which has the Megadrive with MegaCd under it and the Master Adapter at hand. My original 90's Mk1 Megadrive with MegaCD attached My Spectrum 128k +2A. This machine was in a really bad way when I got it, all the lettering paint had come off, it had years of ground in grime inside and out. Took me 3 days just to remove all the grime and remove the horrible stale smoke and dank smell. Then replaced the drive belt and restored the lettering and now all that is missing is one of the feet. Looks really nice now and almost new! For Christmas this year I also got a SNES with 2 games, a Game Gear with a few games, got my Gamepoy Color back off my mother with a few games and my mai gift for Christmas is my lovely boxed Atari 520 STe! Next month I am also getting an Amstrad CPC464 with color screen and loads or original tape games so looking forward to March now also!!

I gave in and sent PPera an email last night, just going to get his driver. Will make life much easier and it supports multiple DOS/TOS partitions. Really easy to use watching the short video on his site, partitioning is 1 screen and extremely easy then just set C to boot and good to go, so will be able to do the 500Mb partitions. At least his driver is much cheaper than HDDriver Honestly, I have read up on so much stuff over the past few weeks I think I have confused myself! PPeras driver lirerally supports IDE, Satandisk & USD which is ideal for what I am wanting. The HDDriver supports more types of input like CD etc which is why it is more expensive. I spent 4-5 days downloading and putting all the games into Alphabetical named directories, nice structure keeping things tidy and easy to find, wouldn't want to have to recreate the huge structure (over 2000 directories and totaling around 25k files) so trying to avoid Drive Image! Think over the next few days I am just going to stop reading up on stuff and fire up my ST and just enjoy it, should imagine PP will email me today at some point about the driver.

I do have Windows 95 & 98 original CD's which I could use in the virtual machine, is there some software for those 2 operating systems that will do what I need or once again issues with viewing the partitions. Or am I going to have to buy PPera hard drive software (a lot cheaper than HDDriver) This is really starting to stress me out! :S

Right, going to try Option 3!! This will be the first time I have used a virtual machine and Linux for that matter. I have setup the Virtual Box giving it the 8Gb space needed, downloading a copy of Ubuntu (64 Bit wouldn't work so changed to 32 bit), Daemon Tools is ready for the image now, so lets see what happens next!

Hi everyone, first post here from a recently new Atari user. I used to be an Amiga & C64 only guy back in the 80's, since I got my C64 & Sega MD back last April though I have turned into an avid retro gamer instead of using the emulators. I now have another Miggy, Spectrum +2A, SNES, Gameboy & Game Gear and next month getting an Amstrad CPC464 with color screen. My retro stuff has spilled from the 3rd floor now into our bedroom, wife hasn't complained......yet!!! So I got my 520 STe for Christmas and have already ugraded the ram to 4Mb and checked my DMA chip so all is good for an external hard drive. My mum said the floppies will eventually fail (Some have on Miggy and ST already) so she bought me a USD last week from Lothareks site, this will be delivered by UPS next Tuesday. I will be setting the SD card up using ICDPro as it is free software, seems easy enough to do following the guide on Jookies site I have already pulled down all the DBug and PP hard drive apapted games and put them into tidy directories ready to just put onto the SD once it is set up (Everything named in 8 or less characters to be safe). I have TOS 1.62 so believe the maximum partition size will be 512 Mb in size. Going to do 3x500Mb and 1x50Mb Boot and finally 1x450Mb on my 2Gb SD card so all should be good there. May use a 4Gb card so will just do extra 500Mb partitions. So far so good, loads of research, reading up and so on. Only bit now that is confusing me is getting the files off my Windows 7 PC Hard Drive onto the various SD card partitions. Windows cannot read Atari formatted stuff and vice versa. It will only recognise the SD card as 1 blank space. I know about PP Drive Image program but with that you can't copy over full directories, just single files or multiples of single files. Good but a bit awkward when you have sub directories like AUTO with a file in them, not forgetting having to recreate the directories I already have done. I could be here all year! So, how would you go about just dragging and dropping all these files onto the Atari ST formatted hard disk (SD Card)? I do have a full version of Total Commander but that can't read an original Atari ST Floppy Disk so unsure yet if it will read the partitions on the SD card after it is setup on the ST. Bit of advice needed, so close and would like to get to the bottom of this so I am ready once my drive gets delivered.