Transfer an adf to Amiga 500 Kickstart 1.2 problem?
 

PROBLEM!! :confused

Well, is there any way to transfer an adf from PC to Amiga without a null cable and without owning CrossDos or something like that on your Amiga?

I know that you must have a program on your Amiga in order to read PC disks. Isn't it? Can Tequilla solve this problem?

Note: I don't have an Internet connection on my Amiga to download CrossDos via Aminet :sad

Re: Transfer an adf to Amiga 500 Kickstart 1.2 problem?
 

Tequilla needs a program on your Amiga, sorry.

If you have an kick 2.1+ mount PC0: (It can be found on your storage disk on kick 3.0+)

Now format a 720k floppy and copy said adf (Packed as a .lha) onto disk and then put on Amiga!

If adf is too big you'll need to split it and rejoin on the Amiga (use winUAE and an Amiga splitter/joiner to be 100% certain! and same on real miggy)

ADF to disk teleporting has not been yet conceived, sorry :D

Perhaps Paul has some alien technology capable of this, but you can;t use it, so... you must use crossdoss at the very LEAST.

Cross dos, cross dos, cross dos.
Always with the cross dos. :rolleyes

DOS2DOS (c)1988 works on Kickstart 1.2 Amigas.

You can use DF0: to read files 720K PC disks.
If you only have one floppy drive you should probably copy
to PC files to RAM, quit dos2dos, then use 'transdisk' to copy the adf to a real Amiga disk.

The real problem is how much memory you have. If you have 1 meg you might be able to get most single-disk ADF's into RAM: but it will be a tight fit.

You'll need files like these:

c/cd
c/copy
c/add44k (free more chip memory)
c/transdisk
l/ramdisk.device (so you can use RAM:)
c/dos2dos (most important)

Boot up and type:

add44k
copy c:transdisk ram:
cd ram:
dos2dos
df0:
(eject Amiga disk, insert PC disk)
COPY df0:GAME.ADF RAM:GAME.ADF
QUIT (or EXIT)
(eject PC disk, insert Amiga disk)
transdisk RAM:GAME.ADF

For large ADF files you'll have to either archive them or split them up which makes it more difficult on the Amiga side but not impossible. It could be annoying if you did all of that only to find out that the game was crap. :scream

Well, we've rouled out every possibility, so we've ended that I need CrossDos or something like that in order to trnasfer an adf to amiga disk.

But how can I retrieve such a program?

yeah that's what I mean, with Crossdos i was also meaning messydos, or whatever :)

Anyway, if you have a terminal program, and a serial cable, you can use that. that's how I made the first amiga transfers, with JR.Comm and Terminate on the PC.

Thanks Akira but the problem is that I don't have on my Miggy none of the prementioned programs!
F
urthermore, i don't have a network connection to download any of them from Aminet.

Can anyone provide them to me on a floppy

or... where can I buy them? :confused

You only need a serial cable and your workbench disk:

http://homepage.uibk.ac.at/homepage/c725/c72578/amiga/

Haha. Please read the original post guys:

"... without a null cable and without owning CrossDos or something like that on your Amiga? ..."

Hmmm. Unless you want to do some programming yourself I think you're stuck unless you can get hold of a floppy disk with PC floppy reading software. You could try scouring the newpaper classifieds for Amiga sales and ask the seller if they have such software, but personally I think you'd be better off buying a null-modem cable which is probably called something else these days:

"Null modem cable"?
"Laplink cable"?
"Microsoft Windows'95 compatible plug and play serial transfer link system adapter (TM)" - minimum spec: Pentium 2 or better CPU, 64 meg RAM and at least 300 meg hard drive space available. recommended spec: Pentium 4 1 ghz, 256 meg ram 10 Gig hard drive. ;)

I READ the original post