Amigaos 3.9 Cd Image How To Make A

After the emulated Amiga has booted, you should be able to see the AmigaOS3.9 icon on the Workbench screen.

Amigaos 3.9 Cd Image How To Make A

The tutorial is really not completely finished yet, among other things, it will in the future include some instructions on how to make a customized AmigaOS 3.9 ISO image.

Lets start off by debunking a couple of myths that seems to be floating around: Myth 1: The AmigaOS 3.9 CD contains copy protection.

This is not true, and I belive there are two reasons why some people seem to think so.

The first one is the fact that although its possible to browse the CD on a Windows PC, there will be problems when trying to copy all files from it.

But what causes this isnt copy protection, no its quite simply because Windows doesnt 100 support the file system used on the CD (there are problems with international characters in the file names for example).

Upon installing them, the installer will ask the user to insert the AmigaOS 3.9 CD, and then it will try to verify if its a genuine CD by simply checking for the presence of certain files on it.

One example of the files that will be checked, is the AmigaOS3.9:VideosAngels.avi file, and if its missing, the installer will complain.

Myth 2: You need the AmigaOS 3.9 CD for installing AmigaOS 3.9.

This is not entirely true, because what you need is the contents of the CD, and a way for the Emergency Disk and the various installers to find this content.

This basically means that the AmigaOS 3.9 files can be on any storage device.

Accessing the AmigaOS 3.9 CD via WinUAE As mentioned above, there are certain problems with trying to copy files from the AmigaOS 3.9 CD on a Windows PC, but it is possible to achive this by using an emulated Amiga.

The instructions below describes how this can be done with WinUAE, but have in mind that Im using version 2.3.1 of the program here, I dont know if it will work with earlier versions.

If you have plans of copying the contents of the CD over to a empty USB pendrive or Compact Flash card (to be used with a CF-PCMCIA adapter), you should insert this as well, just have in mind that it must have a capacity of at least 512MB.

Take a note of the volume name of the USB driveCF card since it will make it easier to identify later on, and if it doesnt have a name, I recommend that you give it one before you continue.

This may work well with AmigaOS 3.1 and lower, but with AmigaOS 3.9 it can be a bit problematic.

The thing is that WinUAE needs to be set up to emulate an Amiga which is precisely like the real Amiga the harddisk is intended for, this is because the AmigaOS 3.9 install will be customized to the very Amiga it is installed on.

Mar 19, 2016 AmigaOS3.9: or AmigaOS39: is a CD-ROM, ISO image or hard drive image prepared from the AmigaOS 3.9 CD-ROM for the purpose of installing AmigaOS 3.9 to your emulation.

Installation of AmigaOS 3.9 under WinUAE.

Translated by Desolator.

I will not explain how to set up an emulated Amiga here, instead I will assume that you already have done this in the past.

What you basically need is a bootable HDF image, but a Workbench ADF image file might work as well (like I did in the example below).

Before you click the Start button in WinUAE, you should first click Hard drives in the box to the left.

Next, make sure that the Add PC drives at startup, Include removable drives.

In case you are a little worried about giving the emulated Amiga access to all drives on your PC, have in mind that enabling the Add PC drives at startup option may really not be necessary.

As an alternative you can add a directory present on your PC instead.

Since Emergency Disk II floppies created with Amiga911 Maker 1.62 now supports booting from AmigaOS3.9 HDF images in addition to ISO, you may consider creating a hardfile and adding it to the emulated Amiga if you intend to later use E-Disk-II for installing OS3.9 on your real Amiga.

Just make a new HDF file thats at least 512 MB big, so that all AmigaOS 3.9 files can be copied to it.