Amiga <--> PC Transfer using Linux

[brian]

This isn't a problem for me now, but may help someone else in the future. I've tried to include all the search phrases I used whilst on my adventure!

I originally ordered the AmiPC kit, but couldn't get it to work with Windows XP (even trying the solutions on this forum). So I decided to try and see if I could do it from my linux install with the parallel laplink cable in that kit.

I found this piece of software, APCComm which seemed to be what I was after. The download has the linux sources, and compiled Amiga executables.

I had to use cross dos to get the amiga executables across. Watch out for 8.3 file formates so rename apccomm-nogui to nogui and apccomm-test to test, then back again once they're on the amiga. I couldn't get the gui version to work, but the nogui version seems good enough.

After building the sources on linux, you have to run /usr/local/bin/apccomm as root.

To copy a file from the pc -> amiga
type /usr/local/bin/apccomm <filename> on the pc
run apccomm-nogui on the amiga
I get about 13k/sec

To copy a file from the amiga -> pc
run apccomm-nogui <filename> on the amiga
type /usr/local/bin/apccomm on the pc
I get about 33k/sec

The files are transferred to/from the current directory on each machine. The timings are from harddrive to harddrive.

Hope this helps someone!