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    From Jonathan Hodges@39:902/516 to All on Fri Aug 24 20:02:24 2018
    How many hard drives or hard files will WinUAE support? I'm asking because of hard file limitations and the ammount of files I wish to put online I would need a dozen or so hard files. I would have a 750mb sized hard file for every cd's contents to put online. I already added a cd using an .ISO file of it, but
    I don't see how I can add more that way. Suggestions?
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  • From Ingo Juergensmann@39:170/400 to Jonathan Hodges on Mon Aug 27 21:57:44 2018
    Hello Jonathan!

    24 Aug 18 20:02, you wrote to all:

    How many hard drives or hard files will WinUAE support? I'm asking
    because of hard file limitations and the ammount of files I wish to
    put online I would need a dozen or so hard files. I would have a 750mb sized hard file for every cd's contents to put online. I already added
    a cd using an .ISO file of it, but I don't see how I can add more that way. Suggestions?

    How about diskimage?

    http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/diskimage.m68k-aos

    Other than that:
    Why don't copy the contents of the CD images to an SFS/FFS/PFS partition? At least with OS3.9 you are not limited anymore to 4 GB boundary.

    Ingo


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  • From Dave Vandermeer@39:902/510 to Jonathan Hodges on Mon Aug 27 15:45:14 2018


    Don't use hardfiles.. it's a very bad idea. They run slow as crap compared to running using folder mode.. create a folder somewhere and add directory to WinUAE and point it to the folder you created, assign the device DH1 and make sure you check 'limit directory size to 1g' and you have a DH1 drive with as much storage as your HDD permits.

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    . create a folder somewhere and add directory to
    WinUAE and point it to the folder you created, assign the device DH1 and make sure you check 'limit directory size to 1g' and you have a DH1 drive with as much storage as your HDD permits.

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  • From Al DeRosa@39:902/519 to Jonathan Hodges on Mon Aug 27 18:20:06 2018
    Why not use the PC that WinUAE is running on to handle the .iso's, in other words open up as many .iso's on the PC side as you want, then just add them
    as directories to WinUAE. That is most likely what I am going to do when I
    get my CNet stable enough for public consumption.. As long as WinUAE will
    allow say 10 directories I will be good.. Try doing that..

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  • From Benny Pedersen@39:140/0 to Al DeRosa on Tue Aug 28 03:57:38 2018
    Hello Al!

    27 Aug 2018 18:20, Al DeRosa wrote to Jonathan Hodges:

    Why not use the PC that WinUAE is running on to handle the .iso's, in other words open up as many .iso's on the PC side as you want, then just add
    them as directories to WinUAE. That is most likely what I am going to do when I get my CNet stable enough for public consumption.. As long as WinUAE
    will allow say 10 directories I will be good.. Try doing that..

    i had a a3000 with 2 pioneer scsi cdrom changers that each hold 6 cdrom from aminet :)

    xenolink handled this very fine

    it was big as that time, today i could run winuae on respberry pi with one usb 3 stick with 64GB and have a complete mirror of aminet

    time changes


    Regards Benny

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  • From Al DeRosa@39:902/519 to Benny Pedersen on Tue Aug 28 06:51:12 2018
    On 08/28/18, Benny Pedersen said the following...


    i had a a3000 with 2 pioneer scsi cdrom changers that each hold 6 cdrom from aminet :)


    It's amazing what we can do today.. If I had the technology I have today back then the things I could have done would have been endless...

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  • From Benny Pedersen@39:140/0 to Al DeRosa on Mon Apr 6 22:57:50 2020
    Hello Al!

    28 Aug 2018 06:51, Al DeRosa wrote to Benny Pedersen:

    i had a a3000 with 2 pioneer scsi cdrom changers that each hold 6
    cdrom from aminet :)

    It's amazing what we can do today.. If I had the technology I have
    today back then the things I could have done would have been endless...

    today one single rpi4 can have it all on a microsd card, for less electrical power usage


    Regards Benny

    ... there can only be one way of life, and it works :)

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  • From Phil Taylor@39:902/533 to Benny Pedersen on Thu Apr 23 07:49:32 2020
    Re: Re: WinUAE limits?
    By: Benny Pedersen to Al DeRosa on Mon Apr 06 2020 22:57:50

    Hello Al!
    28 Aug 2018 06:51, Al DeRosa wrote to Benny Pedersen:

    i had a a3000 with 2 pioneer scsi cdrom changers that each hold 6
    cdrom from aminet :)

    It's amazing what we can do today.. If I had the technology I have today back then the things I could have done would have been endless...

    today one single rpi4 can have it all on a microsd card, for less electrical
    power usage

    I am emulating the Amiga using Winua and running a CNet bbs here.
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