On your advice I rearranged the partitions - AX0: was 200mb and the first partition, then DH0: was the second, and after backing everything up and restoring it A-Max was able to successfully format it! After that it was just a matter of copying over everything from the Mac Classic drive.
Thanks for the help!
It's incredible that this info wasn't out there already because this problem is way too easy to stumble into.
So far compatibility is interesting. There's random crashes every now and then which I guess are inevitable. Tried some games - Crystal Quest, Glider, Shufflepuck, Mission Starlight - they do run though the sound is glitchy. After Dark seems to work.
I tried to make some A-Max format disks using Disk Copy but it throws an error when using the native Amiga drives. Any workaround for that?
Thanks for the help!
It's incredible that this info wasn't out there already because this problem is way too easy to stumble into.
So far compatibility is interesting. There's random crashes every now and then which I guess are inevitable. Tried some games - Crystal Quest, Glider, Shufflepuck, Mission Starlight - they do run though the sound is glitchy. After Dark seems to work.
I tried to make some A-Max format disks using Disk Copy but it throws an error when using the native Amiga drives. Any workaround for that?
For games, anything that tries to hit the Mac's custom chips things will fail. That's most games. I imagine the sound chip isn't 1:1, either, and is why is sounds like garbage. I've mostly been enjoying productivity software, and for that A-Max really is sensational.
I've only got a couple of games on mine right now: Quarterstaff, which I've mentioned before, and Spaceward Ho!
When I'm in the HD experience, with floppy drive attached, it really does look and feel like a massively beefed up MacPlus. For disks, I've been making everything Mac disks. I have a 2nd Mac (Quadra 700) that I sometimes create and move files/disks around before bringing over to the "Mac Plus". Having a "bridge" machine is very handy along the way. I also sometimes will pop on a FloppyEmu so I can load software I get off the internet. But to be 100% honest, I much prefer getting original boxed versions of what I want and load it like the real deal.
Word, Mac Draw II, Hypercard... there's a lot of very cool stuff out there.
P.S.
Don't forget about CrossMac. Just be careful you don't create conflicts.
I've only got a couple of games on mine right now: Quarterstaff, which I've mentioned before, and Spaceward Ho!
When I'm in the HD experience, with floppy drive attached, it really does look and feel like a massively beefed up MacPlus. For disks, I've been making everything Mac disks. I have a 2nd Mac (Quadra 700) that I sometimes create and move files/disks around before bringing over to the "Mac Plus". Having a "bridge" machine is very handy along the way. I also sometimes will pop on a FloppyEmu so I can load software I get off the internet. But to be 100% honest, I much prefer getting original boxed versions of what I want and load it like the real deal.
Word, Mac Draw II, Hypercard... there's a lot of very cool stuff out there.
P.S.
Don't forget about CrossMac. Just be careful you don't create conflicts.