Step by step help lha to adf

[Vaninna]

Hi,

sorry for asking about this but I google and google and never find a guide that helps me figuring this out.

I want to transfer, for example, iff samples downloaded on my real mac to my real gotek equipped amiga 500.

The iff samples come in a lha archives. To access them through the gotek they need to be extracted onto an adf file.

I read that the smoothest way to achieve this is to use winUAE. Same as FS-UAE? That is what I found for mac anyway.

Following this guide:

https://amihelper.blogspot.com/2020/...ha-to-adf.html

In FSUAE:

Insert a blank virtual floppy ("fl1.adf") - DONE
Mount a folder as a hard drive ("HD1") - DONE
Put the lha archive ("st-01.lha") in this - DONE

Start the emulator

And now... how do I make this happen? Do I need to load workbench first? Where do I write the command? How to I target the files?

lha x myarchive.lha df0:

Please show me like I am 4

Optionally show me an easier way. Using osx Terminal?

Cheers

[mikeboss]

you could just get ADFMaster https://matze1887.itch.io/adfmaster

[SkulleateR]

Originally Posted by Vaninna

In FSUAE:

Insert a blank virtual floppy ("fl1.adf") - DONE
Mount a folder as a hard drive ("HD1") - DONE
Put the lha archive ("st-01.lha") in this - DONE

Start the emulator

And now... how do I make this happen? Do I need to load workbench first? Where do I write the command? How to I target the files?

lha x myarchive.lha df0:

Please show me like I am 4

Optionally show me an easier way. Using osx Terminal?

Cheers

You need a Workbench with LHA in C: (look fr LHA.RUN on Aminet, it's self extracting)

Then boot that Workbench -> Open Shell (CLI) -> type in "LHA X MYARCHIVE.LHA DF0:" and away you go ... of course the files have to fit on one ADF file in size

[Vaninna]

Thanks, I managed to extract the lha.run in the hard drive folder. But how do I get workbench on the hard drive? I have only used workbench on floppies. I guess I need to copy/install it in the harddrive?

[Nor Bert]

Unpack lha on OSX and copy to a flash drive for Gotek.
With the HXCFE program you can read the contents of the Gotek pendrive on the Amiga and write to RAM: .
And you will do further steps on Amiga (copy to adf (gotek))

[SkulleateR]

Originally Posted by Vaninna

Thanks, I managed to extract the lha.run in the hard drive folder. But how do I get workbench on the hard drive? I have only used workbench on floppies. I guess I need to copy/install it in the harddrive?

Put Workbench in DF0: and do a "COPY DF0: TO DH0: ALL CLONE" that should work as a rudimentary WB Installation and then boot from DH0: and copy LHA into the C Folder

[Vaninna]

Now I can not start the CLI, givens me the this error:

fsuae software failure Line 1111 (F) Emulator/Coprocessor failure

attached a screenshot

I was messing around with the settings in FS-UAE Launcher to make the emulator run faster (its slower than my real amiga 500...). set 1 mb of slow ram, put the floppy on turbo, etc.

I tried to use kickstart 3.1 to install WB3.1, but when that seemed messy I tried to go back. Now even if I reset all the settings in the launcher I can not start CLI from the wb1.3 adf I used from the start.

plz help.

[SkulleateR]

Then start from scratch ...

You'll need :

Kick 3.1
Workbench 3.1
(emulated) HDD
lha.run
any .lha archive

FS-UAE has preconfigured Configurations for A1200 with Kick 3.1, start with that ...

[Vaninna]

Tried to install both wb3.1 and wb3.0 with bloodwych uae installer

following this guide:
https://fs-uae.net/installing-classicwb-in-fs-uae

wb3.1 - os said there was some error in the disk

wb3.0 - stuck on "Optimising ClassicWB this will take a few minutes..."

-left it running over the night, still stuck.

I tried to set the 1200 with non expanded ram, 4 mb ram, 8 mb ram. Also tried to enable 2 mb chip ram although I assume this is set by default.

plz help.

[Vaninna]

Hold it, it seemed to work! Wb3.0. Tbc

[giantclam]

st-01.lha

Aka. Amiga Soundtracker Sample Pack 1

These were floppy discs, long time ago someone packed them to .DMS files, but I can't find my old archive of same ATM. I guess they got packed in .lha archives over the years.

The original files are still out there tho'.. https://archive.org/details/AmigaSTX...us_conversions

[Vaninna]

Originally Posted by giantclam

Aka. Amiga Soundtracker Sample Pack 1
]

Thanks, but yes, I got them as adfs already, it was just a random example of what I want to do.

[lilwshu]

A much easier way to do this on a Mac is to download "The Unarchiver" from the Mac app store which will extract the .lha files, and "HXC Floppy Emulator Software" from here https://hxc2001.com/download/floppy_drive_emulator/ which will let you create ADF files then drag and drop files to them directly from Mac OS. You can create and use high density ADFs to fit more files on them at a time.

[Vaninna]

Originally Posted by lilwshu

A much easier way to do this on a Mac is to download "The Unarchiver" from the Mac app store which will extract the .lha files, and "HXC Floppy Emulator Software" from here https://hxc2001.com/download/floppy_drive_emulator/ which will let you create ADF files then drag and drop files to them directly from Mac OS. You can create and use high density ADFs to fit more files on them at a time.

Oh my god thank you so much, I just been bouncing audio files back and forth between adf images, lha archives, and wavs on my desktop using the tools above plus Audacity. Not at my Amiga at the time being but it seems really promising.

I tried to get AmigaPal working but it is broken for OSX.

It is a shame that I can't the get emulator to a workable state, but now I can survive without.



The Unarchiver plus HXC Floppy Emulator Software should be mentioned in a sticky here somewhere!

[midimax]

Originally Posted by Vaninna

The Unarchiver plus HXC Floppy Emulator Software should be mentioned in a sticky here somewhere!

Don't known how OSX handles the File attributes (protection bits) maybe they are more identical to one the Amiga use.
Just be aware that at least on Windows people usually run sooner than later into issues where for example the Amiga "executable" or "script" bit gets set wrong when unpacked at another Operating System and transferred back that way. Or the case that the "H" bit not actually means "hidden" like almost everywhere else but "hold" on Amiga.