Awesome, love software updates!
BTW, I still need to leave you positive feedback on Ebay! I got my kit a couple weeks ago and have used it successfully now to make about a dozen disks. My first problem was (as you suggested in your response to me on Ebay) that I needed to right-click on the application and run it as administrator. I assumed since my account is already admin that I didn't need to do that. Once done, however, it's working great!
Also I've discovered that many of my old 3.5" disks are bad, it seems like sometimes when the utility hits a bad disk the only way to get it running again is to restart the program on my PC and reboot the Amiga. I tried hitting various combinations of Esc and Enter, to no avail. Don't have a monitor hooked up to my Amiga when I'm doing this (have to drag it over next to my PC), so no idea if it's prompting me with any kind of error message on the screen. :-/
But, 20+ year old disks aside, it works great, thanks!
I did let you feedback when you gave me yours, but for some reason ebay didn't inserted! Anyway i gave you feedback yesterday! Thanks again for your support!
Now, about the usage of the program, if you read the paradise manual you will understand why you have these small annoyances but i will try to explain it also here:
For transferring amiga disks to pc, i use a small batch file on boot disk ,which restarts the program (which of course is loaded to the ram drive) every time a disk is transferred, and if it stacks, you can press esc+enter to restart it again.So, for amiga->pc transfers, boot disk needs initially about 25-30 seconds,but after that, no rebooting is needed what ever happens!
For opposite transfers ( from pc to amiga ) i choose a different approach:i use the parameter "-stay" on amiga side of the program, in order to make multiple disk transfers in a row without even pushing a button on amiga! The "drawback" for this,is that if an error occurs (usually a bad disk as you noted) you must restart amiga with the boot disk to continue the transfers. But if you noticed, booting time for pc->amiga transfers only takes about 10seconds instead of 25-30! ;-)
Now,why i make the program function like this, you may ask? Because after many hours of usage, i noticed that program hangs or stacks (for any reason) rather often on amiga->pc transfers, so it would be rather annoying having to reboot and wait for 10 seconds every 2-3 disks!
On the other side, pc->amiga transfers is much more stable (provide that disks you are using are not bad of course) and after all, rebooting only takes ~10seconds! Of course i could make the program to behave the same like on amiga->pc transfers but then, you should wait for boot disk to load the first time for 25-30secs instead of 10 (did i told you i'm inpatient? :-) )!
Anyway, if you know a little about amiga's batch files and read the paradise manual you can modify boot disk to make it behave as you like! Don't forget also, that paradise is very powerful, it gives you the ability to transfer stand alone files or even hole directories instead of adf images only! For this you must use amiga shell and windows cli of course.
But i believe that 99% of people want to transfer adf images to amiga disks and try them on the "real thing", right?
That's why i make the hole procedure so simple,fast and automated that not even a monitor connected to your amiga is needed! (btw ,this is how i use the kit too no amiga monitor connected! :-) ).