PiStorm Emu68 SD Card (Amiga)

once you have flashed your raspberry pi and cpld with pistorm, it is time to prepare an sd card that will boot using emu68 a much easier way than doing all these steps below manually is to simply use emu68 imager it not only formats the sd card in windows, but allows you to specify the amiga partitions and it even pre installs the workbench files on there for you too! format sd insert a blank sd into your pc, open an admin command prompt and run the following commands on lines where there is a > from an admin command line the lines not starting with > are outputs to show you what to expect replace the 3 with your disk number that is your sd card do not get this wrong, you can wipe your hard drive note i use a 4gb sd card here, and it shows as disk 3 \> diskpart \> list disk disk ### status size free dyn gpt \ disk 0 online 476 gb 1024 kb disk 1 online 465 gb 1024 kb disk 2 no media 0 b 0 b disk 3 online 3796 mb 0 b \> select disk 3 \> clean diskpart succeeded in cleaning the disk at this point click cancel to any popups from windows asking you to format the drives do not do this \> cre part pri size=200 diskpart succeeded in creating the specified partition this creates a partition 200mb in size, which is where the emu68 files go that the pi reads from \> cre part pri id=76 diskpart succeeded in creating the specified partition this will create a partition used for workbench that fills the rest of the card with one large partition note these partitions are type 76 (used by the pi / amiga to read from correctly) if this fails for you (sometimes does for me saying it cannot set the id) use https //www diskpart com/ https //www diskpart com/ aomi partition assistant pro to change the id make sure its an mbr (not gpt) you can even create the entire sd card in aomi just make a new mpr drive, then create a new 200mb fat32 formatted parition followed by another unformatted partition for the remaining size right click the unformatted partition and select advanced > change partition type id confirm the partitions look like this \> list partition partition ### type size offset \ partition 1 primary 200 mb 64 kb partition 2 primary 3595 mb 200 mb currently partition 2 is select, we want to format the first partition as fat32 so we can copy the emu68 files over in windows want to buy pre made and upgraded amiga computers? visit retrosix co uk we will select partition 1 and assign it a drive letter, which automatically formats it for us as fat32 \> sel part 1 partition 1 is now the selected partition \> assign diskpart successfully assigned the drive letter or mount point windows should now popup a window asking you to format click format , select fat32 and continue now the 200mb partition should pop up as a drive on windows close out the diskpart window, we are done with it now remember to click cancel to any format messages that pop up asking you to format the other partitions, only format the one that pops up after you type assign install emu68 download the latest zip from the emu68 github page if you are using a 32 bit amiga 1200 download the pistorm32lite , otherwise download the pistorm the raspi version is a bare metal one for running on a pi without a pistorm finally, copy your desired kickstart rom over to the sd card and rename it to kick rom here i copy the kickstart 500 rom (not bin ) from the amiga os 3 2 2 cd files that's it put the sd card into the pi and it should boot right up into the default kickstart