A Kind of Newbie Question?

[Paul]

I didn't know where to post this, so I hope here is ok, if not then please move it!

I have read all the FAQ's and searched the Internet, but can't find a solution to this problem:-

I want to transfer an adf back to an original blank Amiga disk, to use on the real thing, transferring the image using a 720k pc disk. The problem is that the adf, when compressed is 841kb, which doesn't fit onto the pc disk, so I will need to split it into 2 chunks. How do I join the 2 chunks together again on the Amiga, so that I can write it back to a disk, using Transdisk?

Also, what is the syntax for Transdisk, to transfer an image back to disk? Any help would be appreciated please. Thanks.

[CodyJarrett]

1. Get this for the PC:
http://members.tripod.com/whdload/utils/pcutils.zip

2. Use Splitz to split the file up into PC disk sized chunks.

3. Copy each chunk to Amiga

4. Get this utility for the Amiga.
http://members.tripod.com/whdload/ut...JoinzAmiga.lha

5. Use Joinz to join the bits together again.


I wouldn't use TransDisk - I'd use DiskWiz:

http://members.tripod.com/whdload/utils/DiskWiz.lha

You can do something like:

diskwiz Toki.adf df0:

or

diskwiz df0: Toki.adf

or most other formats like adz or dms

[Paul]

Thanks CodyJ I'm going to try that now!

[Dizzy]

I would like to thx 2,
I had the same problem

[Paul]

Thanks again Cody. It worked a treat!

[Kodoichi]

On the Aminet there's a program called Chunker. There's a PC and Amiga version of it included, so you can easily split & join on the different computers.

hello to all on this board,
i noticed someone posted up links to diskwiz,but the link seems to be dead and back to roots seem to have dropped it.could someone put up a link to this software ? cheers.
also how on earth do i run amiga files from places like aminet when they are all LHA compressed,i can not find the decompressor prog(called LHA i think) for the pc or amiga.i have got various LHA unpacking progs,but they need to be unpacked themselves,aaaarrggghhh !!!,talk about the chicken and the egg !
please,im gagging to get a LHA unpacker to use on the pc or/and amiga,but one that is not packed itself !!.
any help appreciated as im about to explode with rage.
cheers,
andy

You use try WinRAR on the pc to unpack lha files. I'm uploading lha for Amiga to the zone at the moment.

anyone got a live link to the joinz software for the amiga(it lets you join split files up),also,will it reconnect adf files that i split on a pc using rzsplit,if not,has any kind soul got a link to a pc prog that will split files which i will be then able to reconnect on a amiga using joinz or similiar software.
thanks in advance.
andy

cheers mate,sounds good,but do you know where i can get it?

[RetroMan]

@tassy

How bout using some search engines like this one : http://www.google.de/search?q=winrar&hl=de&meta=

i noticed someone posted up links to diskwiz,but the link seems to be dead and back to roots seem to have dropped it.could someone put up a link to this software ? cheers.

The link works fine for me. Could you try it again?

[Paul]

Right to use the above links do the following.....

1. Right click on a link. A menu appears

2. Left click on Save As.

whoooaaahhh !!,cheers for the exellent advice one and all,i am now motoring and getting adfs onto amiga disks.prob though,i have just transferred zout to amiga floppy using adf2disk and the game only loads to title screen on amiga and then crashes in big style(i did notice during the transfer to disk using adf2disk that it seemed to take a very short time considering it was writing an entire amiga disk,maybe this is a prob?),this is my first attempt,so i am about to try diskwiz instead,hopefully it will be better and i can finally get to play deepcore in all its glory.
thanks again for any advice given.