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Offline amigakit

Re: PC to AMIGA (Diskette Questions)
« on: April 01, 2006, 12:46:31 AM »
To read or write to a real Amiga disk on the PC you will need a Catweasel MK4
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Re: PC to AMIGA (Diskette Questions)
« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2006, 12:51:37 AM »
No it won't work as the Amiga 1200 only supports 720K PC formatted disks and 880K Amiga formatted disks

You can cover the hole on the HD disk (not the write protect hole) and this will allow you to format it as a DSDD disk (720K).  Then the Amiga can read that with a program called CrossDOS or Fat95.

The easiest way to transport ADFs in bulk is the A1200 PCMCIA to CF adapter as ADFs are often much larger than 720K.
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Re: PC to AMIGA (Diskette Questions)
« Reply #2 on: April 01, 2006, 01:02:30 AM »
Whilst using the Amiga, use the TRANSADF program from the Amiga Shell to remake the ADF into a real Amiga disk

You can also use the program UNADF to extract the contents of ADF archives if the ADF is an AmigaDOS disk (not custom disk format like some games)
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Re: PC to AMIGA (Diskette Questions)
« Reply #3 on: April 01, 2006, 01:12:01 AM »
1. Yes

2. OPTIONS:
1)Amiga Network Card with EasyNet (to network PC to Amiga and access Shares on the PC)
2)The easiest way to transport ADFs in bulk is the A1200 PCMCIA to CF adapter as ADFs are often much larger than 720K.
3)Catweasel MK4
4)Amiga Wireless Network Card with EasyNet

3. Yes you can
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Re: PC to AMIGA (Diskette Questions)
« Reply #4 on: April 01, 2006, 01:27:43 AM »
No this is a pretty comprehensive list

Theres another way (but not easier!): remove Amiga hard disk and connect to PC.  Use WINUAE/AmigaForever to access hard disk and copy ADFs over.
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Re: PC to AMIGA (Diskette Questions)
« Reply #5 on: April 01, 2006, 01:40:32 AM »
Yes we stock real DSDD floppy disks here:

10 Pack
25 Pack
50 Pack

You can fit a High Density floppy mechanism to your Amiga and read PC HD disks 1.44Mb and Amiga HD disk 1.76MB
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Re: PC to AMIGA (Diskette Questions)
« Reply #6 on: April 01, 2006, 02:01:01 PM »
Yes its the IMAGETOOL.EXE program that comes with the Catweasel MK4
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