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solarmon · 05 April 2021, 19:55

Sorry, I thought you already had a Gotek and was already able to make use of ADF files.

OK, lets start from scratch. You have Amiga Explorer and a Workbench 1.3 disk. That should be all you need to write an ADF file to floppy drive.

You need to get the AExplorer client program transferred to the Amiga over serial, run it from RAM: and then you can make use of Amiga Explorer to transfer the ADF and write it to floppy. (you basically just drop an ADF file on to DF0 in Amiga Explorer once you have it working).

The steps to do this setup can be found at:

https://www.everythingamiga.com/2017...act-flash.html

My ToADFish boot disk is just a custom Workbench disk with the serial preferences already set and the AExplorer program already on it. It also has the alternative option of using ADF Sender Terminal (PC side) and transdisk/transwarp (Amiga side) instead of Amiga Explorer (PC side) and AExplorer (Amiga side).

I hope that is much clearer now as to what you need to do.

05 April 2021, 19:55	#41
solarmon Registered User Join Date: Dec 2018 Location: UK Posts: 1,716	Sorry, I thought you already had a Gotek and was already able to make use of ADF files. OK, lets start from scratch. You have Amiga Explorer and a Workbench 1.3 disk. That should be all you need to write an ADF file to floppy drive. You need to get the AExplorer client program transferred to the Amiga over serial, run it from RAM: and then you can make use of Amiga Explorer to transfer the ADF and write it to floppy. (you basically just drop an ADF file on to DF0 in Amiga Explorer once you have it working). The steps to do this setup can be found at: https://www.everythingamiga.com/2017...act-flash.html My ToADFish boot disk is just a custom Workbench disk with the serial preferences already set and the AExplorer program already on it. It also has the alternative option of using ADF Sender Terminal (PC side) and transdisk/transwarp (Amiga side) instead of Amiga Explorer (PC side) and AExplorer (Amiga side). I hope that is much clearer now as to what you need to do.