{"id":1101,"date":"2020-02-07T18:52:58","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T18:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/?p=1101"},"modified":"2020-02-07T18:52:58","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T18:52:58","slug":"amiga-1200-update-microdrive-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/02\/07\/amiga-1200-update-microdrive-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Amiga 1200 Update – Microdrive Success!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve done a lot of “playing” today. Some good and some bad has come of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s get the bad out of the way first: the left shift key doesn’t work. The problem lies in the keyboard membrane itself, which will need replacing. I didn’t expect this to be easy given the age of the machine. The other bad news is the capture card I have is unsuitable for live gameplay because the lag is almost a full second!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now I’ve done some work in FS-UAE and with help from a forum I can boot from the CF card with a directory from the computer mounted as a second hard drive so I can easily transfer files across between systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve also been working on the Microdrive, and now it mounts automatically when plugged in, with a FAT32 file system! This means, when I have the Amiga set up as I want, I won’t have to open it up every time I want to get new stuff installed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Microdrive Mounted – Dir of Contents in Shell Window<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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