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ADF Transfer Kit
Here's what I've come across on the German eBay site, anyone have a clue how/whether this works?
http://tinyurl.com/mh5z5f To translate what it says in the auction: "With this article you can, without problems, make real Amiga Disks from ADF files. No modifications on the Amiga or PC are neccessary. You will be delievered the following: 1. HD-disk with PC software 2. DD-Disk with Amiga software, bootable 3. German-written instructions manual You need: 1. Amiga 500/600/1200/2000/3000/4000 2. PC with disk drive and Windows operating system 3. A few DD-disks for the Amiga" How can this work, as far as I know no PC drive can write anything that an Amiga drive can read, so how could this software make it possible? Anyone have a clue which software is in question? |
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Don't think so...doesn't mention anything about any cables.
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Interesting. Is it a fake then?
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I don't know
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Is here someone who speaks German and would translate it to English?
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I already did in first post, that's exactly what it says, I sent email to seller and will see what he says...
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Oh yes, the rest was some other text...
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Looks pretty much useless to me. "The PC software creates a data disk from the ADF." WTF?!
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Yes but it then says "The Amiga software creates a usable Amiga Disk from the Datadisk" ?? Seems pretty vague.
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What it does is just copying the ADF to a PC formatted disk which the Amiga program then mounts and writes back to disk. That's my guess at least.
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Well isn't that what all of us need to do? What I wonder is does it work, because it sounds much simpler than having to deal with complicated serial transfers...
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13 June 2009, 14:21 | #13 |
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You can do all that yourself without paying 11.90EUR, format a PC disk, copy the ADF in question to that very disk, mount PC0: on Amiga, copy the file to your Amiga and write it back to disk with tools such as TSGUI.
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If you archive them then they generally tend to fit
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Hi quantum112,
If I were putting together a package such as this, it would be (1) a PC formatted floppy disk containing a utility to split an ADF file in two, so that the two halves could be copied onto 720K DOS formatted floppies for transfer to an Amiga, and (2) an Amiga formatted floppy disk containing a Dos2Dos-type utility, an ADF2Disk-type utility and a utility to rejoin the two halves of an ADF file (and it wouldn't need to be bootable). However, from what I can see of the German instructions in this picture, it is far from certain that the method is that simple. These words, for instance: „...Betrieb des PCMCIA...“ and „...per drag and drop auf jedes...“, seem to be describing something beyond what is strictly necessary. prowler |
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True, the PCMCIA thing is not very convincing. Oh well, my Brainboxes adapters arrive next week (in stores they cost 100 pounds each, I got two for 30 pounds, nice bargain)
so hopefully all will be fine. |
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