Chapter 12

AmiCDROM

The driver it installs is uaescsi.device.

Why any of this

The Amiga 1200 was the last great Amiga Commodore made, and the desktop people built on it is the one worth having back: Kickstart 3.1, AGA, a hard disk, a graphics card for a screen bigger than the chipset could draw, MUI for modern windows, color icons, and WHDLoad so every game lives on the disk instead of in a box of floppies. An emulator or a MiSTer puts that machine back on your desk. Getting to that finished desktop is the work.

You cannot download it ready-made. Workbench and Kickstart still belong to someone, so the disks and the ROM have to be yours, and Commodore’s own installer has to copy them. Everything after that is a recipe of Proceed buttons, the Green Amiga Alien guide, which people have followed by hand for twenty years. These notes turn that recipe into scripts, so someone new to Amiga emulation gets the upgraded A1200 in an afternoon, from disks they own.

The end of the road is a build nobody babysits. AmiPilot can sit inside the running Amiga, click what is left of the installers, and take a picture of the screen, so an AI agent can check that the desktop came up, that the icons are in color, that a game launches, and fix the script when they are not. Every page here is one step toward that.

AmiCDROM is an Amiga CD driver pointed at WinUAE’s SCSI emulation. The installer asks for that device by name, then for a unit number taken from WinUAE’s log. The core has neither, so this chapter ends here.

Eliminated
1–6
Copy the archive into Programs, turn on uaescsi.device, turn on the log, and read the unit number.
Eliminated. There is no uaescsi.device to tick and no winuaelog.txt to read.
Eliminated
7–18
Boot, extract, run Install, choose uaescsi.device, the unit, the memory option, and the filename options.
Eliminated with the device. The Proceed path would be writing a mount that cannot see a drive.
Eliminated
Reset
Reset so the DOS driver starts.
Eliminated. There is no CD driver to start.

Step numbers follow Chapter 12 in the Green Amiga Alien guide. The words are ours.