12 August 2004, 02:08 | #1 |
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pc .adf to real amiga 500 disc
Hi!
Is there a miracle program for me to use that converts an adf file from my pc to my amiga 500? I do not have a null modem cable. I do have a bunch of MF-2DD discs to use though. I've read on a few other places on the net, but all of the tutorials and other stuff are to complicated for me (laugh if you want to). I do like my Sensible Soccer even though I'm not a hard core programmer. I want a program that asks me to insert my amiga disc, point out my adf-file and then push a magic button. How about that? |
12 August 2004, 03:05 | #2 |
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You still have to transfer the file first. |
12 August 2004, 08:03 | #3 | |
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12 August 2004, 13:56 | #4 |
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So, I do need some extra hardware to do this, correct? Either a cable from my pc to my amiga or something that is sold out and doesn't exists until october?
Hmmm, this is not good....... It's a shame I can't by it i a store anymore. The game i'm looking for is Sensible World of Soccer 96/97, i only got 94/95. I recently bought an amiga 500 with 2 (two) working tac2's....! |
04 September 2004, 09:51 | #5 |
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I decided to continue this thread..
So, I just bought Amiga 500, and now I'd like to Download Games from Internet, and put them to Amiga Disk, and play them on Amiga, I have read lots of topics of this thing, and once I read something that I have to cut the ADF to two parts with TRANSDISK what comes with WinUAE, but I dont know, how can I use it? I know, this is a newbie question |
04 September 2004, 21:18 | #6 |
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There's no straightforward way to do this. As Thomas said teh only way is by means of the Catweasel controller.
Read the FAQ topics, get a nullmodem cable and get transferring. |
04 September 2004, 23:26 | #7 |
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Read this page : http://homepage.uibk.ac.at/homepage/...l/methods.html
I used the Method A. I transfered transwarp on my amiga, then i generated this floppy : http://amiga500.free.fr/telecharger/4-09-02/ADFDump(2002)(Scaf).zip With this disk, all transfers get easier. |
11 September 2004, 18:07 | #8 |
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ADF to Amiga
I used Amiga Explorer from Cloanto to do this. It's definately worth the money, it's easy to use and I managed to salvage nearly all my old Amiga Oktalyzer music from 15 year old disks! I'm amazed they were still readable after all this time.
You need a null modem cable and a *real* workbench disk to use it. It's available seperately from Cloanto as Pay-&-Download-immediately purchase. Very nice if you can do without the whole "Amiga Forever" package. *edit* You can even use it to transfer the kickstart ROM from your Amiga for use with emulators. This has the added bonus of freeing up 256Kb of guilty concience. ;-) *edit* Last time I transferred anything was when I was using Windows 98. Does Amiga Explorer work under XP? If not, can you get around it by using one of those drivers that free up the serial ports like GiveIO? Last edited by Sune Salminen; 11 September 2004 at 21:57. Reason: small addition to original post |
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12 September 2004, 11:46 | #12 | |
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yeah hes right... go buy a hard drive and cd-rom for your A500 if you don't already have them... never mind transfering the floppies with a null-modem cable that way is stupid... best way to solve a problem is to throw money at it until it goes away :P basically if your computer is lame and doesnt do what you want... put heaps of useless shit in it... and give it a clever name or something... maybe you could tower it... @Fickel: Seriously Sune Salminens method is the one I use... you can transfer adfs to floppies with Workbench1.3, a stock A500 and a serial null modem cable (which you could build yourself... trust me I had no idea how to solder but this was too easy) http://pinouts.ru/data/pin_Nullmodem9to25.shtml and the Amiga Explorer software http://www.amigaforever.com/ae/ Last edited by T_hairy_bootson; 12 September 2004 at 12:11. |
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15 October 2004, 11:10 | #13 |
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just to continue on with this, (be aware i am an amiga n00b).
so if i understand right, there is no way to connect up an external amiga floppy drive to a PC without the catweasel controller? and a bog standard PC-PC null modem cable will work Amiga-PC? basically (as i stated in another thread before i was pointed here) i am looking for a way to back up my 300+ amiga discs onto a CD (for preservation). so yer, best way i seem to understand (from reading these forums) is to copy the ADF files from the floppies to my pc, sort and then burn the cd. trouble is, i have no idea how to get the images onto my pc in the first place. any help would be great. |
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However, you cannot use an external Amiga floppy drive on the Catweasel, but you have to use an internal PC drive. Actually Amiga and PC floppy drives are almost identical. It is the controller which prevents the PC from reading Amiga floppies. |
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16 October 2004, 10:31 | #16 |
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thanks for the great info.
i have plenty spare pc floppy drives, but it looks like i will need to purchase one of these catweasel devices. this would be the overall quickest and easiest way to read/write amiga disks. as reading them would be fine to back them up, but if one of the originals die, i wont have a way to make a new one. |
01 November 2004, 17:59 | #17 |
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probs with transdisk !!
pc > amiga
iam useing transdisk .. the transfer goes pref. but then when i try to use the disk it just gives mi a error mess that goes something like (on the amiga) "error validating disk key 880 checksum error" why can i not get a working transferd adf disk.. i have formated the disk on the amiga, iam useing nullmodemcabel, iam uesing adf sender on the pc, and iam useing transdisk on the amiga .. the shell command i ues is "transdisk -w ser:" (because i only have 1 fd) Help ........ ------- www.gumpa.tk |
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I transfered Prince of Persia, it made the message "error validating disk" because it was not readable by the workbench. It booted very well, and still works. |
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31 January 2006, 01:56 | #19 |
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SOMEONE Help me????
I made my null-cable transfered transdisk, but now i cant run transdik on the amiga???? I made "Protect transdisc rwed" also made "Protect transdisc +e" , but still cant run on Amiga. It says "Not executable file".. Please please help me.. |
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