Creating Floppies from ADF files!

[admiral]

Originally Posted by cwhaley

I have a null modem cable

You can use the free and open source AmigaXfer (full disclosure: Author). Link in my signature.

[davideo]

Originally Posted by Etze

No, it can't. Though, at the moment I'm working on a better version of ADF-Blitzer with RAD-support. No fancy features, just KISS.

Apologies - I was sure it was ADF-Blitzer I used.

I've also used EasyADF in the past but that can't write to RAD: either.

So I'm now not sure what program I used to write to RAD: but I know I've done it with WB in the past.

[Kin Hell]

Originally Posted by davideo

Apologies - I was sure it was ADF-Blitzer I used.

I've also used EasyADF in the past but that can't write to RAD: either.

So I'm now not sure what program I used to write to RAD: but I know I've done it with WB in the past.

So did I Dave. - I had Dopus configured to do it but for the life in me.....

[davideo]

Originally Posted by Kin Hell

So did I Dave. - I had Dopus configured to do it but for the life in me.....

We (I certainly am) must be getting old mate

[Kin Hell]

Originally Posted by davideo

We (I certainly am) must be getting old mate

Lets not go there.....

[cwhaley]

Originally Posted by admiral

You can use the free and open source AmigaXfer (full disclosure: Author). Link in my signature.

Cheers for that. Unfortunately I only have Windows 2000, so it won't work on my machine.

Problem remains that I can't open the 'Serial' program in order to configure the serial port

I'll see if I can re-install WB and see what happens then.

[cwhaley]

Originally Posted by solarmon

I would recommend getting a Greaseweazle and do all your disk reading/writing on your PC/Linux/Mac machine.

That looks a good bit of kit; would certainly make it a lot easier getting stuff over to the Amiga in disk form...

I have an old Windows 2000 laptop (Sony Vaio) and a much newer MacBook. Do these Greaseweazle units connect to IDE lead of a floppy with the other end being USB into your machine?

If so, I'll go an grab an external USB drive from somewhere.

[admiral]

Originally Posted by cwhaley

Problem remains that I can't open the 'Serial' program in order to configure the serial port

AmigaXfer doesn't use serial.device. It uses the kickstart rom debugger, which has its own implementation of basic serial i/o at 9600. This debugger can be triggered by e.g. selecting debug/romwack/sad in the debug menu added by starting workbench with "loadwb -debug". README has more methods.

After injecting code, AmigaXfer takes over, with its own serial i/o routines, which run at the speed selected in AmigaXfer GUI.

[Kin Hell]

Originally Posted by cwhaley

That looks a good bit of kit; would certainly make it a lot easier getting stuff over to the Amiga in disk form...

I have an old Windows 2000 laptop (Sony Vaio) and a much newer MacBook. Do these Greaseweazle units connect to IDE lead of a floppy with the other end being USB into your machine?

If so, I'll go an grab an external USB drive from somewhere.

It has to be a Floppy Cable with a twist on pins 10-16. - From here: https://www.retroez.com/store/Grease...ter-p381405857

Other end is USB.

[cwhaley]

Originally Posted by Kin Hell

It has to be a Floppy Cable with a twist on pins 10-16. - From here: https://www.retroez.com/store/Grease...ter-p381405857

Other end is USB.

Ahh I know them, I think I have one in a box of spare bits -- I remember the twisted part of the cable towards the connector. If not I'll grab one alongside the Greaseweazle unit. It seems this works with MacOS too which makes life easier.

Thanks again I'll post here letting you know how I get on.

[cwhaley]

Originally Posted by admiral

AmigaXfer doesn't use serial.device. It uses the kickstart rom debugger, which has its own implementation of basic serial i/o at 9600. This debugger can be triggered by e.g. selecting debug/romwack/sad in the debug menu added by starting workbench with "loadwb -debug". README has more methods.

After injecting code, AmigaXfer takes over, with its own serial i/o routines, which run at the speed selected in AmigaXfer GUI.

All I remember from my original A600 bought new back in the day was a folder called 'Utilities'. I was only young so had no idea what I was doing, but I remember each of the programs in there opening their own GUI. I was hoping I'd be able to open 'Serial' and configure the port.

I'm coming back to this system after being away from it for over 25 years and I only really mucked about gaming and doing bitmap art work on it back then. I'm very rusty knowledge-wise so all of this feels new. Think I need to find some reading on it!

[davideo]

Originally Posted by davideo

Apologies - I was sure it was ADF-Blitzer I used.

I've also used EasyADF in the past but that can't write to RAD: either.

So I'm now not sure what program I used to write to RAD: but I know I've done it with WB in the past.

I've just been archiving some discs with EasyADF and there is an option to write an ADF image to RAD: