10 January 2008, 05:34 | #1 |
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Hi! Im relativley new to the amiga, just bought myself an amiga 500 and was happily formatting a pile of 720KB disks when somehow my workbench disk got corrupted (It shows up as Df0:BAD). Im distraught as it was my only copy.
HOWEVER, i have sim city disk that boots to a workbench desktop. My question is, given these conditions, could i use a program like Amiga Explorer to write an ADF of a workbench disk to the amiga? |
10 January 2008, 06:56 | #2 |
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Welcome to the EAB, theres plenty of retolicious mischief to getup to when you get some time to kick back and relax. so lets see about the problem... the short answer is "indeed, yes you can." you will still need to get the "AmigaExplorer" over onto the amiga in question there are many ways, by using a small telnet program and setup a telnet ftp service on the PC. theres more to read here http://wiki.abime.net/ good luck |
12 January 2008, 23:49 | #3 |
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so long as the disk has the "type" command, you could use adf sender terminal.
Works something like: type ser: to ram:transdisk then use trackdisk to write a new WB image through ADF Sender. More info from Code:
http://adfsender.stoeggl.com/ @Zetro I am not sure that the FTP method will work with an a500 (no TCP stack). Amiga Explorerer still relies on the "type" command. IMHO, Amiga Explorer is the better option. It allows for a lot more functions. Last edited by Andec; 12 January 2008 at 23:54. |
13 January 2008, 00:50 | #4 |
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If you have a disk that boots into workbench, then you can use the Amiga Explorer route. It copies automatically the files needed to the Amiga side without the need to set up any additional things. Try it out.
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This is a good point, but i believe ppill's HOMBRE' project allows for serial term program. its awesome! |
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"type SER: to RAM:Setup" After the Setup file is sent and run, AE works well. It still relies on the "type" command tho. @Zetro Yes Hombre is a good project and works well. It may be a bit confusing for a new Amiga user tho... |
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13 January 2008, 03:01 | #7 |
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Thanks everyone, ill try it out.
But umm..when the game boots to workbench there is no cli icon or anything. I press ctrl+D to break into DOS while booting and i try the command: Type Ser: to Ram:setup but it tells me "Cant open SER:" Any more ideas? il ltry a few more games disks i got with my amiga and see if any accept the command. |
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What are you using to transfer files (PC side)? If you are using ADF Sender Terminal then the command is slightly different (you also need the transdisk program from the ADF Sender Terminal website) "type ser: to ram:transdisk" |
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20 January 2008, 00:13 | #9 |
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No luck.
I have however ordered some 1.3.3 workbench disks |
20 January 2008, 00:36 | #10 |
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For SER: to work you need to have a port-handler file in L: (and if I remember correctly serial.device in DEVS:). Maybe it's not on that game disk?
Thanks for the kind words regarding Hombre. Haven't been working on it for a while now... but that's about to change :) I have the next three weeks off so should be able to improve the package somewhat. Docs are first on the list then pull-down menus (SHWEET). |
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