I've backed up my game but it's the unscrewing part I'm worried about, I can see that going wrong.

@ Ajescent

That's the really simple and easy part if you have an appropriate screwdriver, if you're really worried maybe you can ask a local computer store to do it for you (for example when you buy a bigger harddrive there).

The time consuming part will be downloading and installing Yellow Dog Linux and the most teasing parts configuring everything to you personal taste and optimising and setting up the emulators you want to use (install the YDL dev package, to build your own files to set up some applications).

You'll probably want to install SPE enabled media libraries, install the SPE scaler tool for quick graphics scaling for games and emulators, install the Dual Shock 3 drivers, maybe Wi-Fi drivers and in the future when the project is mature the SPE Mesa graphics drivers (for OpenGL functions) currently under development. Some of these may be included in the YDL 6.1 package, I am not sure.

When I have more money and my current 80gig runs out (about 35 left) I'll do that, thanks MikeB

talking of emulations,roms,bla bla , = piracy,.. what happen with vg chartz rules,..?

Not per se, for example in cases when you own the game already. Also there are many ROMs which can be downloaded legally from the internet (either free or requiring payment).

Some examples regarding completely free and legal downloads of Amiga games:

Dream17 (provides most Team17 games) for download:

http://www.dream17.co.uk/

Great Thalion games:

http://thalion.exotica.org.uk/

Turrican games, BCKid, R-Type, etc:

http://www.factor5.com/downloads_backups.shtml

There are many legal Amiga download websites like that, for example AGTW even made available games which were never officially released like Ocean's good Snow Bros and Liquid Kids ports. These were provided to them legally by the copyright owners, so these good efforts won't forever be lost.