please answer this!

i have had an amiga since 1992, most of the games i own are copied from copies. a lot of them start off with a screen saying something like 'cracked by ...' eg, the crack team, a lot give a date also.
i just wonderd what exactly this was, my guess is that its the person who copied the game from the origional and got past the security bit.
someone explain to me please.

// RetroMan : don´t use direct signature, use your UserCP instead ...

[Belgarath]

your guess is correct!

thanks belgarath

im new to amiga emulation. is there any way to download a game to my pc, put it on disk and play it on my amiga without a special disk drive?

[RetroMan]

@zakfab

Nope sorry You have to transfer the adf to your Amiga and write it back to disc using your Amiga .....

[Belgarath]

RetroMan is correct, and for a guide on how to do this check out
http://ale.emuunlim.com/guides/file-transfer.shtml

and for a list of guides to do with amiga emulation
http://ale.emuunlim.com/guides/guides.shtml

and welcome to EAB!

the links to LHA and ADF Blitzer dont work! where can i d/l these from?

i have got ADFBlitzer.lha, but am still searching for the program LHA, help anyone?

[RetroMan]

Do a search for LHA.RUN on Aminet

thanks. i searched for lha and it had millions! so is lha.run the version of lha i need for the pc or the amiga?

[Belgarath]

lha.run is for the amiga

lha.exe is for the pc

[jmmijo]

You can actually use either WinRAR or WinACE to extract .lha files on the PC side as well, then format a 720k diskette on the PC side and copy the files over, then use CrossDOS on the Amiga side to read the 720k floppy disk, but remember the 8.3 filename convention

im trying to follow the guide at this site:
http://ale.emuunlim.com/guides/adf-todisk.shtml

i am stuck at unzipping the adfblitzer! when i try to open it with lha.exe it tells me whats in there, but doesnt unzip it. the instructions totally confuse me, can someone put it in simple terms please

[Drake1009]

Well if you have the Amiga version of LHA running you should extract it by typing LHA X (not LHA V) and then the filename.

If you're doing it on the PC side using WinZip you'd have a problem since WinZIP doesn't like other stuff than Zip. The other supports need seperate programs for it.

i have lha.exe. i believe this is what i need to unzip a *.lha file. how do i do this? (on the pc)

[RetroMan]

As Drake posted before : LHA X TEST.LHA

this sucks.

ok, i am so so so confused now
i have an amiga 600, wb 2.0 ks 2.0
when i type MOUNT PC0:
its says device pc0 not found (or something similar)
what can i do about that?

[whiteb]

The mountlist doesnt contain the entry for PC0:

Have you deleted any of the crossdos entries from your mountlist ?

[whiteb]

Originally posted by RetroMan
As Drake posted before : LHA X TEST.LHA

LHA X TEST.LHA extracts to the current DIR.

LHA X TEST.LHA [DEST] sends the data to a directory of your choice, like RAM:

[whiteb]

Originally posted by Drake1009
Well if you have the Amiga version of LHA running you should extract it by typing LHA X (not LHA V) and then the filename.

If you're doing it on the PC side using WinZip you'd have a problem since WinZIP doesn't like other stuff than Zip. The other supports need seperate programs for it.

Winzip will recognise .LHA on the PC, it needs the LHA executable to b in the external programs setup.

[Twistin'Ghost]

Originally posted by whiteb
Winzip will recognise .LHA on the PC, it needs the LHA executable to b in the external programs setup.

The problem with that option is that WinZip uses the DOS version of LHA, which means DOS filename conventions (all uppercase, 8+3...)