| | TITLE System Configuration Import Checklist
| | | TOPIC Q: What do I have to consider when transferring an
existing Amiga configuration to the emulation environment?
| | | DISCUSSION A: The following are some of the considerations that should be kept in mind before
transferring an Amiga configuration to an Amiga emulation environment:
- On the system partition, all hardware-related files should be moved from Devs to
Storage. Hardware-related files stored inside Expansion should be moved to
Storage/Expansion.
- System and application settings referring to screen modes other than NTSC or PAL should
be temporarily changed to NTSC or PAL modes. This is because the RTG display mode IDs of
the new Amiga will be different than the ones of the original Amiga. Some programs, and
even the operating system, are known to crash if they cannot use the desired screen mode. This could
make it impossible to boot immediately after the configuration is moved to the emulation.
- Manually examine the contents of Startup-Sequence, user-startup and WBStartup. Screen
promotion programs may have to have their settings changed. TCP/IP and other
network-related configurations will also need to be changed.
- Uninstall all TCP/IP software that was used to connect to Amiga serial
(e.g. telephone line), Ethernet and other ports. The emulated Amiga takes
advantage of the TCP/IP functionality provided by the host environment,
via a bsdsocket.library which is part of the emulation.
In the case of a dial-up connection, the Amiga does not need to dial out any
more, but rather the host environment (e.g. Windows) must be configured to do the dialing
as appropriate when a TCP/IP client references an external address.
- In the emulation settings, enable TCP/IP (bsdsocket.library), floating point unit and CPU level
as appropriate. If the Amiga has software which requires a higher CPU than the one
supported by the emulation, reinstall an 020 or other supported version of the
software (typically, code compiled for a 68020 or higher CPU will not
run on a 68000 CPU, but it will work on a 68020, even if it was
optimized for a more powerful version).
- You will need to decide whether on the new computer your Amiga files
can be stored using the host file system
(recommended choice) and whether you will need to use one or more
hardfiles (less efficient and functional option,
but fully preserves Amiga attributes and file names) for part or all of
your everyday work or historical archive.
- If your configuration uses tools and utilities such as custom file
systems, CD-ROM audio players, scanner software, etc., they must be set
to use either uaehf.device (for hardfiles and "real" hard disks) or
uaescsi.device (for everything else, e.g. CD-ROM and DVD devices, SCSI
pass-through, etc.) See "Amiga SCSI and IDE Devices: Disk Image Files and Direct Access" for additional information.
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