What am I doing wrong?

[AllIEverHad]

Hi,
I have just registered on this fine forum because i've ran into some trouble ;P

I thought I was fairly knowledgeable when it comes 2 stuff like this!

Anyway I have an A500+ and want to get some games transfered across to PC or vice versa
Ive been following the tuts, but when I try and mount the disk in the amiga it says device not recognised (or some such!)

I've read this pc0 thingy is part of cross dos but wtf? :)

I have workbench 2.0

What do i need to do to get it working?



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[Twistin'Ghost]

Originally posted by AllIEverHad
I've read this pc0 thingy is part of cross dos but wtf? :)

Essentially, when running CrossDOS, your DF0: drive becomes a (low density) PC drive when a low density PC disk is inserted in it. To view the disk, you have to open PC0: rather than DF0: When not in use, it will be PC0:??? or something like that.

[Mr Creosote]

(low density)Actually, it's double density disks ;) Anyway, I guess this is the important part: regular high density PC disks will not work on your Amiga unless you have an extra (external) drive made for this.

[Twistin'Ghost]

You're right, I don't know why I typed low density. :rolleyes :)

[AllIEverHad]

Yeah, I have formatted a double density disk (720kb) on my pc.

But I can't get workbench to recognise the 'mount pc0' command

Is cross dos included in workbench 2.0?
this is what i need 2 know

Thanks!



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[jmmijo]

I think CrossDOS came with workbench 2.04 or higher. What version does your WB disk say?

[Akira]

No, CrossDOS came with Workbench 3.0 and workbench 2.1 ...

[jmmijo]

Originally posted by Akira
No, CrossDOS came with Workbench 3.0 and workbench 2.1 ...

That's it, WB2.1 and higher :)

Thanks Akira

[AllIEverHad]

workbench v2.0!!


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[Akira]

Originally posted by jmmijo
That's it, WB2.1 and higher :)
Not exactly :)
Those are the only two versions that have it! IF you say WB2.1 and higher you include WB3.1, 3.5 and 3.9 (which don't have the CrossDOS commodity)

[scaf]

AllIEverHad :

Well, WB2.0 can't read PC disks. But you can try this ADF :

http://amigadump.emu-france.com/fichier.php?id=115

It's a WB1.3, that can read PC 720K disks, and it has transwarp for you can create ADFs from floppies (and floppies from ADFs).

If there is someone near you who can send it (on an amiga floppy) to you, you'll be able to fulfill your desires ;)

You can transfer it yourself on a amiga floppy via a null-modem serial cable and a WB 1.3 system disk.

[Twistin'Ghost]

You should be able to run the sales version of CrossDOS with 2.0.

[zaqwsx]

Another option for you:

Go to aminet and download "Fat95" which (IMHO) is far superior to CrossDOS because it allows you to keep all your long Amiga Filenames (none of those PC 8.3 restrictions!)

Also it works on any amiga Workbench from 1.3 right through to 3.9!

Just follow the link below to download it from Aminet:



http://ftp.wustl.edu/~aminet/disk/misc/fat95.lha

Hope this helps;)

[Twistin'Ghost]

Actually, the version of CrossDOS I use on my Amiga (can't remember which) allows me to use long filenames and mixed case. But if this util works as promised, I agree that it's a worthy option.

[mtb]

I think it's better to buy a null modem cable.

The link i suggest in this case is
http://homepage.uibk.ac.at/homepage/c725/c72578/amiga/adfsenderterminal/methods.html


With your 500+ 1mb it will be a pain to zip ( dunno also if there is enought memory ) an adf to a 720k disk, with serial cable it should took moreless 2 min from pc to amiga and a bit more in the opposite way, if you install the baudbandit.device.

Hope this help.

[scaf]

This method is good.
You can use it to transfer transwarp, as the first file from PC to amiga.
Then, with transwarp and your null-modem cable, you can create the floppy from the ADF i wrote the link before.

This floppy reads PC disks, and comes with transwarp, dms, lha...