thegamezmaster Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 (edited) Has anyone have one of these from amigakit.com and used them to say play games? Are they good, bad, hard to use or easy to use. Thinking of getting one but I have a C64 and a Uiec/sd and the .d64s most of them the screen has a lot of flickering during gameplay and wondered if these were any better. Appreciate any input from anyone who has experience with this device. Thank you! Edited April 13, 2015 by thegamezmaster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+remowilliams Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 IIRC it's just for moving floppy images to / from the Amiga via CF, you need to write the images to disk to play them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegamezmaster Posted April 13, 2015 Author Share Posted April 13, 2015 IIRC it's just for moving floppy images to / from the Amiga via CF, you need to write the images to disk to play them. Will this device write them to disk? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+remowilliams Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 Yes, it has software (its own bootable disk) to write the ADF files you place on the PCMCIA card to disks. This of course requires that you have an A600 or A1200 for the PCMCIA slot by the way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegamezmaster Posted April 13, 2015 Author Share Posted April 13, 2015 Thanks for the info! Can you play games from this device? Amigakit says it's a stand alone device. Just curious. Thanks again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+remowilliams Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 No the device simply facilitates getting floppy images over to the Amiga so that you can write them to disk(s) (or vice versa). It's not any kind of drive emulator, it's standalone in the sense that a hard drive is not required. There is however an inexpensive USB based floppy drive emulator that is quite nice 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegamezmaster Posted April 14, 2015 Author Share Posted April 14, 2015 No the device simply facilitates getting floppy images over to the Amiga so that you can write them to disk(s) (or vice versa). It's not any kind of drive emulator, it's standalone in the sense that a hard drive is not required. There is however an inexpensive USB based floppy drive emulator that is quite nice Thank you for your help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertB Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 thegamezmaster wrote: > ...I have a C64 and a Uiec/sd and the .d64s most of them the screen has a lot of flickering during gameplay... That's strange. The uIEC (cousin to the SD2IEC) is just considered a solid-state drive which loads and saves and should have no effect on the file itself. Are you trying to play a PAL .D64 on a NTSC C64? Then you would get possible flickering, due to timing differences between the PAL program and the NTSC machine. FCUG celebrating 33 years, Robert Bernardo Fresno Commodore User Group http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm July 18-19 Commodore Vegas Expo v11 - http://www.portcommodore.com/commvex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegamezmaster Posted April 14, 2015 Author Share Posted April 14, 2015 thegamezmaster wrote: > ...I have a C64 and a Uiec/sd and the .d64s most of them the screen has a lot of flickering during gameplay... That's strange. The uIEC (cousin to the SD2IEC) is just considered a solid-state drive which loads and saves and should have no effect on the file itself. Are you trying to play a PAL .D64 on a NTSC C64? Then you would get possible flickering, due to timing differences between the PAL program and the NTSC machine. FCUG celebrating 33 years, Robert Bernardo Fresno Commodore User Group http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm July 18-19 Commodore Vegas Expo v11 - http://www.portcommodore.com/commvex Hello, using NTSC .d64s. and still get flickering. Not sure why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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