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I just got an amiga from ebay and it boots up ok, goes to thr purple screen with the hand. When I insert a disk, the disk access light goes orange and teh screen goes completely purple for a few seconds but then it goes back to the hand holding a disk screen. Any suggestions?? Knackered floppy drive. I just got an amiga from ebay and it boots up ok, goes to thr purple screen with the hand. When I insert a disk, the disk access light goes orange and teh screen goes completely purple for a few seconds but then it goes back to the hand holding a disk screen. Any suggestions??

Games Print And Play there. I'm playing the Amiga. THEIR FINEST HOUR etc etc asks you for 'their' save disks that. Don't hesitate to look for older or open a new thread in Emulation if.

Knackered floppy drive or something more serious. Best Answer: Wow Amiga's, I still have my old A500+ knocking about. Happily I can tell you that your machine doesn't sound as though it needs anything major. The floppy drives in Amigas were known to be delicate. Cattle Feed Formulation Software. I personally went through 3 with mine.

Fortunatly, as the antiquated floppy disk drive still exists in modern machines, you can find a replacement in any computer store. They have the same connections, and don't require any fiddling or drivers to work.

In short, get any new floppy disk drive, open up you amiga, and swap it out. Happy computing Regards A. What disk are you inserting? If it's not an actual amiga formatted disk with the necessary boot files, what you're describing will happen. If you have a game, it should boot.

Try the workbench disk(s) if you have it/them. Not sure how many discs workbench came on for the a500. I'm assuming you have the a500 because of your description of the insert disk screen. The amiga will read dd pc-formatted discs, but only once you mount the device driver, with the correct software, which can't be done wihout the appropriate software. Also, you can format HD discs as dd and they'll work fine on the amiga. Double density discs are the ones with only the sliding write protect tab. High density have a permanent hole, as well as the sliding tab.

Purchase preformatted 3 a million/2 inch disks. Bestbuy, staples or walmart has them. The greater you purchase the greater low-value they're. You will additionally might desire to get a floppy rigidity cleansing kit.

Placed a splash of the fluid on the scrubbing cloth it quite is in the disk and place the disk in the rigidity. Then click on CTRL+O to open the open container. Only go with the floppy rigidity and the cleansing disk will scrub the recording head. Whilst that's thru a container will seem asking in case you want to format the dis. Click on cancel and choose the rigidity lower back to scrub it lower back. You only might desire to try this two times a month except your pc is in a very dusty smokey place.

All removeable media drives might desire to have their recording heads wiped clean or they're going to badly corrupt your data. There is not any thank you to scrub your hard rigidity's heads. That's thoroughly sealed so that's no longer mandatory besides. • Tell us some more • Upload in Progress • Upload failed. Please upload a file larger than 100x100 pixels • We are experiencing some problems, please try again. • You can only upload files of type PNG, JPG, or JPEG.

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