writing amiga discs from a .adf in an amiga 500

24 September 2002, 11:50

Hi, first of all i'm VERY happy to see an amiga forum so big and alive and great that this one.
I think the AMIGA 500 is the greatest game machine ever, and i still have my A500 in remembrance for a lot unforgetable moments.
A couple of days ago, i've decided to borrow the A500 to my little sister, (she lives far from my house). I have a lot of discs but i've seen in internet a lot of great games that i dont have in discs.
My problem is that i want to copy the .adf's into real AMIGA discs.
I found a program to copy a .adf into an amiga disc, but it needs Kickstart 2.0. I have an A500 with 1mb, KickStart 1.3 and 2 disc drives. Anyone knows a really feasible method to copy the .adf's into real AMIGA discs?.

Greets and Thanks.

whiteb · 24 September 2002, 16:32

Quote:

Originally posted by r00t
Hi, first of all i'm VERY happy to see an amiga forum so big and alive and great that this one.
I think the AMIGA 500 is the greatest game machine ever, and i still have my A500 in remembrance for a lot unforgetable moments.
A couple of days ago, i've decided to borrow the A500 to my little sister, (she lives far from my house). I have a lot of discs but i've seen in internet a lot of great games that i dont have in discs.
My problem is that i want to copy the .adf's into real AMIGA discs.
I found a program to copy a .adf into an amiga disc, but it needs Kickstart 2.0. I have an A500 with 1mb, KickStart 1.3 and 2 disc drives. Anyone knows a really feasible method to copy the .adf's into real AMIGA discs?.

Greets and Thanks.

Unless I am mistaken, TransADF works in 1.3.

What is TransADF?
TransADF creates Amiga Disk Files (ADFs), a 880kb file copy of
an Amiga floppy disk. It can also be used to transfer ADFs back
to a real disk.

Do a search on Aminet, www.aminet.org/aminet

Nyarlathotep · 25 September 2002, 00:43

You can use transdisk, available with WinUae.
"transdisk -w file.adf" writes file.adf to df0:

Twistin'Ghost · 25 September 2002, 00:47

BTW, welcome to EAB, r00t!

mtb · 28 September 2002, 14:08

More info about transdisk:

You should copy have transdisk in your c: directory into wkbench 1.3 disk,

So:

1) Format a disk with the Amy
2) Open the shell
3)
type transdisk -w ser: and insert the ami formatted disk in df0:, then start sending with a pc program ( with a serial cable )

or transdisk -w ser: -d trackdisk1 if you put the disk in df1:

To send/receive adf you can use for example adf sender terminal.

Problems:

With a 1.3 500 it is as slow as hell, it will take about 8 minutes for a disk! So be patient...

Maybe you could gain something with the baudbandit.device ( aminet ), but i am not so sure it can gain speed even from pc to ami.

Last: can you verify if it works even with 512 kb?

Unknown_K · 28 September 2002, 14:19

Cloanto amiga explorer works fine (kinda slow) for moving adf's from pc to amiga 500 (mine is a 1mb unit).

All you need is a workbench disk to boot the amiga (I used 1.3) the software on the pc send data to the amiga through a null modem cable, this data is dumped to a floppy and then you just run the sopftware. The program sends the adf directly to an unformatted disk in you amiga floppy drive (takes a while since baud rate is 19200). On the pc side it shows your amiga floppy drives you just drag the adf to the drive you want to send it to, the amiga doesnt even have to have a monitor running since its all done from the pc.

24 September 2002, 11:50	#1
r00t Posts: n/a	writing amiga discs from a .adf in an amiga 500 Hi, first of all i'm VERY happy to see an amiga forum so big and alive and great that this one. I think the AMIGA 500 is the greatest game machine ever, and i still have my A500 in remembrance for a lot unforgetable moments. A couple of days ago, i've decided to borrow the A500 to my little sister, (she lives far from my house). I have a lot of discs but i've seen in internet a lot of great games that i dont have in discs. My problem is that i want to copy the .adf's into real AMIGA discs. I found a program to copy a .adf into an amiga disc, but it needs Kickstart 2.0. I have an A500 with 1mb, KickStart 1.3 and 2 disc drives. Anyone knows a really feasible method to copy the .adf's into real AMIGA discs?. Greets and Thanks.

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25 September 2002, 00:43	#3
Nyarlathotep Zone Friend Join Date: May 2002 Location: Italy Posts: 148	You can use transdisk, available with WinUae. "transdisk -w file.adf" writes file.adf to df0:

25 September 2002, 00:47	#4
Twistin'Ghost Give up the ghost Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: U$A Age: 33 Posts: 4,662	BTW, welcome to EAB, r00t!

28 September 2002, 14:08	#5
mtb Registered User Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Italy Age: 40 Posts: 466	More info about transdisk: You should copy have transdisk in your c: directory into wkbench 1.3 disk, So: 1) Format a disk with the Amy 2) Open the shell 3) type transdisk -w ser: and insert the ami formatted disk in df0:, then start sending with a pc program ( with a serial cable ) or transdisk -w ser: -d trackdisk1 if you put the disk in df1: To send/receive adf you can use for example adf sender terminal. Problems: With a 1.3 500 it is as slow as hell, it will take about 8 minutes for a disk! So be patient... Maybe you could gain something with the baudbandit.device ( aminet ), but i am not so sure it can gain speed even from pc to ami. Last: can you verify if it works even with 512 kb?

28 September 2002, 14:19	#6
Unknown_K Registered User Join Date: May 2002 Location: Ohio/USA Age: 55 Posts: 1,380	Cloanto amiga explorer works fine (kinda slow) for moving adf's from pc to amiga 500 (mine is a 1mb unit). All you need is a workbench disk to boot the amiga (I used 1.3) the software on the pc send data to the amiga through a null modem cable, this data is dumped to a floppy and then you just run the sopftware. The program sends the adf directly to an unformatted disk in you amiga floppy drive (takes a while since baud rate is 19200). On the pc side it shows your amiga floppy drives you just drag the adf to the drive you want to send it to, the amiga doesnt even have to have a monitor running since its all done from the pc.

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