Amiga Explorer and Transfering ADF file

[wlcina]

Its possible to connect amiga and pc with Amiga Explorer and nullmodem cable AND transfer (unimage) ADF image directly to Amiga fdd ?

I have old a500+ with 1mb ram

[Peanutuk]

If you PC is connected to your Amiga with the nullmodem cable you can simply write ADF files to a blank floppy in the Amiga. I have tried it with a stock A500 and (it was a while ago) it worked fine. You don't need lots of memory as the ADF file is written chunk by chunk to the floppy and not stored in memory.

[Borg_Number_One]

The solution is drag and drop.
see picture.

If you want higher transferrate try to reduce the resolution and colordepth in "ScreenMode Prefs"

I have got an Amiga 600HD and I can reach 38400 bps while using the lowest ScreenMode settings.

Well this method with "Amiga Explorer" is much more slowlier than "ADFSend" because Amiga Explorer do not send the raw disk image data to the amiga.
There are controll/checksumm bytes and all is send in packages.

ADF Sender Terminal + Transwarp is the best solution.
http://homepage.uibk.ac.at/homepage/c725/c72578/amiga/

[wlcina]

Should I install anything to my amiga before using Amiga explorer ? or I need only connect amiga to pc with nullmodem and run Amiga Explorer ?

You need to install the amiga side of the program but this is done nearly automatically if you connect the cable turn on your amiga and run the wizard on the pc side.

[wlcina]

Urgent help needed : On my workbench (2.04) is not in prefs any icon named Serial (I need to setup serial) could someone send me this prefs to me ? (Serial+icon)

[Borg_Number_One]

impossible! If you have original disks or unmodified disks then serial prefs must b there.

Look again.

[wlcina]

Hi, I had copy of my original workbench (original disk is corrupted) without serial prefs, I copied prefs with directory opus (720kb pc disk) and everything is working now (19.200 only, but working ;-) ), thank you all!

On my 030/50 it goes up to 57200, on my old 040/25, it used to be 115000!

[Amiga1992]

With Twin Express, I get 115200 on my A600

[wlcina]

Do you think its possible to get speed at least 56k on my A500+ ? (I have 2colour WB) nullmodem is lenght about 1.5m (I think speed of serial ports depends on chipset)

I cant set baud rate @ 115200 in serial prefs, maximum is about 56k as I remember ,how did you do that ?

You do that by changing the aexplorer tooltype, and also from the windows side

[thomas]

Originally Posted by wlcina

Do you think its possible to get speed at least 56k on my A500+ ? (I have 2colour WB) nullmodem is lenght about 1.5m (I think speed of serial ports depends on chipset)

I cant set baud rate @ 115200 in serial prefs, maximum is about 56k as I remember ,how did you do that ?

You cannot get above 19200 or perhaps 38400 on an A500. You need a faster processor to get more serial speed. The serial port is unbuffered, so the processor has to do all the work. (Well, it has a buffer of 1 byte).

AExplorer does not care about the serial settings. You have to change the tooltypes of the AExplorer icon (click it once and choose Information from the Menu).

[wlcina]

ok, I will try 38400, program will inform me if transfer is failed (much of noise etc) ? (if I am writting adf to floppy) or It allows me to write false (corrupted) data to floppy

[Unknown_K]

I don't think 38400 is a common option on the PC side, I used 19200 on my PC and Amiga 500 over serial cables and all worked fine with no errors at all.

If you want faster speed use a network card of some type on a different Amiga, Amiga explorer supports TCP/IP transfers.

You do set the bandwidth from the amiga explorer application on the pc side, no need to change the com settings from somewhere else so 38400 is an option

[Amiga1992]

Originally Posted by thomas

You cannot get above 19200 or perhaps 38400 on an A500. You need a faster processor to get more serial speed

sorry but this also seems to be a fault on the PROGRAM. as I said, with Twinexpress, on a 2 or 4 color workbench, I can get my A600 up to 115200!

[Unknown_K]

Originally Posted by Akira

sorry but this also seems to be a fault on the PROGRAM. as I said, with Twinexpress, on a 2 or 4 color workbench, I can get my A600 up to 115200!

Have you timed transfers to see if the data realy is going at that rate?

[Borg_Number_One]

really interesting question.


Well, Amiga 600HD is able to receive 38400 bps and send 115200 bps.
Maybe it could be more than 38400 if everything is in a kind of "super-off-modus"...that means if (parts of) ECS, PAULA etc... are not used while transfer.

[wlcina]

Maximum speed for A500+ is 19200 :-((