Thank you SO MUCH for this! This is the FIRST video on TH-cam I've found that shows the Greaseweazle setup from start to finish (not just using the greaseweazle after it's set up). I'm VERY thankful! Thumbs Up!
4:12 - I've watched a few videos on this device, but this is the 1st one I've seen using the molex splitter to provide power to the drive from the GreaseWeazle device. I've ordered one from Amizon, and can't wait to try it out without failure... Thank you!!!
This video saved my sanity. The bit where you're explaining where the red wire goes on the floppy cable? I had mine set up wrong somehow. Watching you do it fixed my problem. Many thanks!
Good video Mickey, and well explained ,there is a lot to it.A couple of years a go i bought 25 Amiga disks ,at the time i did not know they would not play on Windows.I was trying to see if there was a way to convert them.and came across Greaseweazle v4 and typed it in here and got your very informative video.I got this kit on eBay for £22 GreaseWeazle Version 4 New Firmware Complete Kit Read Write Atari ST & Amiga.
Thanks so much for this video and explaining everything so clearly. I am using the lovely purple Greaseweazle 4.1 and have loads of disks to get through including demos. Good to see another cannon fodder fan :)
Great vid just got this so not use to using it just starting out as having issues trying to read and write a copy of my StreetFighter 2 disks. Any chance of doing a vid on writing disks as I've managed to read the disks but so far not been able to write them back to disk as I'm trying to make a backup of the disk format.
Way before the greaseweazle or Gotek i remember reading (Drag and drop) my adf files on my windows 95/98 computer and copying/saving them onto another disk and this was back in 1998, but the later edition windows and computers could not read the 760k DS/DSD without this kind of device because of their incompatibility
Hello. Awesome ! I have some disks coming from magazines which are "tri-format" : they hold 3 game demos for amiga, PC and atari on the same disk. Would you know if they could be extracted by that device, and how ? Thanks
Straightforward and well explained. Even though I have the Zip drives and could make that work, this is a more elegant solution to the problem. My biggest problem, is that I have a whole lot of ADF files on the Linux computer, and I want to download some of them to use on my real Amigas. Any hints?
If you have blank disks, using WinUAE and Greaseweazle you can write the ADF to read floppy. I don't know if FS-UAE can do greaseweazle. Amiberry can on a raspberry pi.
@@MikeyGRetro I also have a Gotek, but I don't have it set up on the 3000 yet, because my son is assembling the external adapter I purchased. So, I do have a way of moving the files across from the Linux box. I have just installed FS-UAE on the Linux box, and have it running, but am unfamiliar on exactly what to do to get the operating system installed. More reading for me, and I am over 80, and my brain is full. Getting back up to speed on the Amiga again, is like learning to dive off the 10 meter platform. :-)
Thanks for this video. A stupid question: I see my drive is connected, I see it's spinning but no matter which --drive option I try, i always get the "NoIndex" error. Is something with my hardware connection wrong or is it a problem of the Disk? Is there a way to test if the connection itself is correctly set and working?
Hi Mikey, great video and very informative as usual. Just two questions. I notice a lot of disks backed up as .IPF files. Is this similar to .scp? The reason I ask is because .ipf files always seem to be around the 1mb size. Secondly, can greaseweazle back up to the .ipf option? There is some info about .ipf here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Disk_File#IPF Cheers
Hi Chris, so it can read ipf files and put them to a disk but you can't make ipf sadly. I guess due to copyright laws the owners of the game have to allow a ipf version to exist.
If i didn't have to sell a Kidney in order to afford a box of floppies now days... The real question is when can we expect this to have PiStorm support so we can connect it to a RPi and ditch the every expensive replacement of our old floppy drives.
Didn't think boxes of floppies were that expensive but I guess it depends where you are. I don't think you'll see PiStorm support because this doesn't interface was Amiga hardware it's usb and goes to Windows PC or maybe Mac.
You always can use the Greaseweazle (or DrawBridge) to image your disks on a PC, put the images on an USB-stick and use the images with a gotek. So why do you want a "PiStorm-support"? Anyway, if you use a Pimiga 3.0 you have full support for Greaseweazle (and DrawBridge).
Great vid, thanks! But the bit where you show that you are a total tech-head and could confuse the layman (me) is why you would rip cannon fodder but still have it named as stunt car racer!? Now I know you could call it any file name but that really could cause problems for non-techy amiga fans! "where's all my games? - oh, you just over-wrote stunt car racer 45 times, you didn't rename your adf's" Doh!
Thank you for pointing out this continuity error. I did several takes of this video to try and get it right for everyone. I highly recommend naming the files what it says on the disk and hopefully a lot of people will do that. Thank you for stopping by.
Thank you SO MUCH for this! This is the FIRST video on TH-cam I've found that shows the Greaseweazle setup from start to finish (not just using the greaseweazle after it's set up). I'm VERY thankful! Thumbs Up!
4:12 - I've watched a few videos on this device, but this is the 1st one I've seen using the molex splitter to provide power to the drive from the GreaseWeazle device.
I've ordered one from Amizon, and can't wait to try it out without failure...
Thank you!!!
This video saved my sanity. The bit where you're explaining where the red wire goes on the floppy cable? I had mine set up wrong somehow. Watching you do it fixed my problem. Many thanks!
Very good tutorial. Not tried my greaseweazle yet, but this tutorial will come in handy when i do. I would like to see more tutorials of this.
Just bought a v4.1 Greaseweazle. Many thanks for this video as it's helped me get my first disks archived.
Good video Mickey, and well explained ,there is a lot to it.A couple of years a go i bought 25 Amiga disks ,at the time i did not know they would not play on Windows.I was trying to see if there was a way to convert them.and came across Greaseweazle v4 and typed it in here and got your very informative video.I got this kit on eBay for £22 GreaseWeazle Version 4 New Firmware Complete Kit Read Write Atari ST & Amiga.
the greasseweazle is also supposed to be directly supported in Winuae as a native amiga drive.
This is a seriously great video, and a lot of it isn't Amiga specific. I will link to it on the wiki and share it around!
Finally someone explained what this is and what itdoes - nowhere could i find information on this Greaseweasle device. Thanks
Thanks so much for this video and explaining everything so clearly. I am using the lovely purple Greaseweazle 4.1 and have loads of disks to get through including demos. Good to see another cannon fodder fan :)
Thank you for featuring my software "FluxMyFluffyFloppy" - Btw.: Today I released v5.0.1 ;)
Great vid just got this so not use to using it just starting out as having issues trying to read and write a copy of my StreetFighter 2 disks. Any chance of doing a vid on writing disks as I've managed to read the disks but so far not been able to write them back to disk as I'm trying to make a backup of the disk format.
I would love to see you write some disks
Great content! Would love to see a video of all the options that there are with the gw.exe (revs, retries, speed ...).
Way before the greaseweazle or Gotek i remember reading (Drag and drop) my adf files on my windows 95/98 computer and copying/saving them onto another disk and this was back in 1998, but the later edition windows and computers could not read the 760k DS/DSD without this kind of device because of their incompatibility
A tutorial for Commodore 1541's flippy disks would be nice.
Sadly I don't have one. I have the C64C but only cassette. Maybe in the future...
Hello. Awesome ! I have some disks coming from magazines which are "tri-format" : they hold 3 game demos for amiga, PC and atari on the same disk.
Would you know if they could be extracted by that device, and how ?
Thanks
Straightforward and well explained. Even though I have the Zip drives and could make that work, this is a more elegant solution to the problem. My biggest problem, is that I have a whole lot of ADF files on the Linux computer, and I want to download some of them to use on my real Amigas. Any hints?
If you have blank disks, using WinUAE and Greaseweazle you can write the ADF to read floppy. I don't know if FS-UAE can do greaseweazle. Amiberry can on a raspberry pi.
@@MikeyGRetro I also have a Gotek, but I don't have it set up on the 3000 yet, because my son is assembling the external adapter I purchased. So, I do have a way of moving the files across from the Linux box. I have just installed FS-UAE on the Linux box, and have it running, but am unfamiliar on exactly what to do to get the operating system installed. More reading for me, and I am over 80, and my brain is full. Getting back up to speed on the Amiga again, is like learning to dive off the 10 meter platform. :-)
An impressive piece of kit!
Thanks, very helpful.
Thanks for this video.
A stupid question: I see my drive is connected, I see it's spinning but no matter which --drive option I try, i always get the "NoIndex" error. Is something with my hardware connection wrong or is it a problem of the Disk? Is there a way to test if the connection itself is correctly set and working?
Hi Mikey, great video and very informative as usual. Just two questions. I notice a lot of disks backed up as .IPF files. Is this similar to .scp? The reason I ask is because .ipf files always seem to be around the 1mb size. Secondly, can greaseweazle back up to the .ipf option?
There is some info about .ipf here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Disk_File#IPF
Cheers
Good question. I'll see if it can.
Hi Chris, so it can read ipf files and put them to a disk but you can't make ipf sadly. I guess due to copyright laws the owners of the game have to allow a ipf version to exist.
@@MikeyGRetro .ipf files are created by the kryoflux hardware (older than the SuperCard Pro , but similar method to "flux" a disk).
Maybe a dumb question here, but can it also do 5.25" floppies?
I believe so. Hopefully someone else can confirm this. Sadly I don't have a 5.25'' drive or floppies to test this.
Will emulators run octamed pro?
FluxMyFluffyFloppy missing the exe file anyone help?
Cool video but, you forgot an absolutely necessary point : Zadig dl and install.
I never needed it my case. If you are constantly relying on reinstalling your USB drivers everytime you have issues with your Windows installation.
Very complex .
I just use Dosbox
If i didn't have to sell a Kidney in order to afford a box of floppies now days... The real question is when can we expect this to have PiStorm support so we can connect it to a RPi and ditch the every expensive replacement of our old floppy drives.
Didn't think boxes of floppies were that expensive but I guess it depends where you are.
I don't think you'll see PiStorm support because this doesn't interface was Amiga hardware it's usb and goes to Windows PC or maybe Mac.
You always can use the Greaseweazle (or DrawBridge) to image your disks on a PC, put the images on an USB-stick and use the images with a gotek. So why do you want a "PiStorm-support"?
Anyway, if you use a Pimiga 3.0 you have full support for Greaseweazle (and DrawBridge).
I'm surprise the board isn't powered by USB.
It is USB powered
Great vid, thanks! But the bit where you show that you are a total tech-head and could confuse the layman (me) is why you would rip cannon fodder but still have it named as stunt car racer!? Now I know you could call it any file name but that really could cause problems for non-techy amiga fans! "where's all my games? - oh, you just over-wrote stunt car racer 45 times, you didn't rename your adf's" Doh!
Thank you for pointing out this continuity error. I did several takes of this video to try and get it right for everyone.
I highly recommend naming the files what it says on the disk and hopefully a lot of people will do that.
Thank you for stopping by.
Flux my fluffy. LOL
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