ADF FILES TO FLOPPY?

[rkauer]

Ok, I've already download PackMaster.

But where in the world is the diskwiz?

PS: main Aminet (and the search utility) is down again....

[adolescent]

Not sure it's on Aminet.  But, you can get it from the authors page:

http://members.tripod.com/whdloadrules/utilities.html

BTW, it's a shell program, not GUI.

[NoFastMem]

Why is everyone so afraid of the Shell?  :-(

It doesn't bite!

[rkauer]

Indeed! :-D

[whiteb]

NoFastMem wrote:
Why is everyone so afraid of the Shell?  :-(

It doesn't bite!

It does if you are a member of the Gui Generation.

[Ross1]

I can never remember the commands to make programs do what they are supposed to do when using shell and usually dont know where to place the actual program to make it work right. An installer program with a decent GUI is much less complicated. Im just getting the hang of LHA

[A4000_Mad]

Im just getting the hang of LHA

Personally I've found DirectoryOpus to be great to use. To unpack an LHA file you simply display the file in one window of Dopus, click on it once to highlight it and then click on the button 'EXT LHA'. This unpacks the file to the destination you have chosen in the other Dopus window.

To turn a few drawers and/or files into an LHA file you just highlight them all, hold down the right mouse button and select 'LHA add' from the Fuction menu at the top of the Dopus screen, then just type a name for it in the box.



I do my own packing and unpacking in RAM so as not to risk getting errors on my hard drive. If all works fine in RAM I will then copy the unpacked/packed file to hard drive :-)

A4000 Mad

[A4000_Mad]

Don't mind me but it was on my 'to do' list to do some more checking and report back   :-D

As I said previously, I was unable to use Packmaster to unpack an ADF to RAD. TransADF was the answer as correctly stated by another member. You can download 'TransADF-GUI.lha' from Aminet if you like to use a GUI. But it appears that this can only be used for unpacking to DF0, DF1, DF2 or DF3.

All you need to use TransADF is for the file of the same name to be in the C drawer of your Workbench. With TransADF you can indeed unpack to RAD and also to a virtual floppy drive in your hard drive called VF0 (I used VirtualFloppy v1.4 for the first time myself today 8-))



Anyway, you can use Shell or just hold down the right mouse button and select 'Execute Command' from the menu at the top of your Workbench screen.

Assuming you had an ADF file called PacMan.adf in RAM, the command lines for unpacking it to DF0, RAD and VF0 would be as follows:-

TransADF DRIVE DF0: FILE RAM:PacMan.adf WRITE

TransADF DRIVE RAD: FILE RAM:PacMan.adf WRITE

TransADF DRIVE VF0: FILE RAM:PacMan.adf WRITE


To create an ADF file of a floppy in DF0 using TransADF you would just leave the word WRITE off of the end of the top command line above. In which case the destination for the ADF file would be RAM :-)

I'm outta here  :eek:

A4000 Mad

[Malakie]

carvedeye wrote:
Hi i have a load of adf files i want to put to floppy i have downloaded adf blitzer and madf is there a better program available or wich one is the best prog?

First question.. where are you getting floppies?   :-?  Amiga compatible floppy disks are not made anymore that I am aware of but if you know a place...

Which makes me wonder something....

How come someone has not written such an obvious tool... a tool that allows you to MOUNT ADF files on your Amiga so we do not need to re-write them to floppies!?!?

In fact being that floppies are hard to come by now, this would be a great tool for all of us!  We could continue to use our software even after the floppy original has ceased to work.

I only have maybe 20 SSDD disks that were for Amiga use.. and ALL of them are bad due to age.. So many read/write erros they are all unusable..  So for me to use ADF files is next to impossible because I do not have any disks to write to.

Maybe some dev out there will read this and make our dreams come true...  :rtfm:

Malakie

[McVenco]

Malakie wrote:

First question.. where are you getting floppies?   :-?  Amiga compatible floppy disks are not made anymore that I am aware of but if you know a place...

*Any* 3.5" DD or HD floppy is Amiga compatible. Just format them and you're ready to go. They are also still being made, although not much, but you can still buy new, unused floppy disks everywhere.

[jj]

I have not seen floppies for sale anywhere in the uk for some years.

[amigakit]

We sell new DSDD 880K floppy disks:

http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=dsdd