Subj : Re: 386 OS/2 Woes...
To   : Abbub
From : Vorlon
Date : Wed Apr 26 2023 11:34:51

Hi Abbub,

 On Tuesday April 25 2023, Abbub said to Vorlon:

 >> I've got a Gotek for my Amiga's. A great way to replace a dead floppy
 >> drive when the original's are so hard to source.

 A> Yeah, I've got a spare one that was destined for the Amiga 2000, I just
 A> never find myself using floppies with it. I suspect that has a lot to do
 A> with whdload, but even when I want to install software on it, I just
 A> copy it over the network and use diskette images loaded off of the hard
 A> drive, rather than fooling around with real floppies.

That's a limit on the amiga's, when a *new* network card for the big box
units are $200AUD. At least with my A1200, I'd already had the pcmcia card
and just had to find it.. I was also given a WIFI one that works well to.

I'm not a big game player, so the gotek has more of the install files, and
utils in the various ADF's..

 A> I think the reason I never got around to sticking the Gotek in it is because the whiter  A> beige of the gotek didn't match the tan beige of the Amiga 2000's front
 A> panel.

Having multiple Amiga's, I put mine into a external case so it can be used
with all of them.

 >> It's at the sweet spot.. One of my first intel based machines was a
 >> 386DX40 with 8mb of ram.. It ran OS/2 3 as well and served as the BBS
 >> machine. Started with Desqview/Qemm...

 A> Yeah, I started the same way with this one and then moved it over to
 A> OS/2 because I wanted a network stack that actually supported binkd.

Was that back in the day or now? Netwoking via lan was just at the very
start and not many people had it.


\/orlon
aka
Stephen

Rocking FSXnet with an Amiga 4000 and Zeus BBS.

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