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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: carvedeye on March 27, 2007, 05:57:50 PM
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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?
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I've used transadf, which works fine. I've added it to dopus for adf filetype for writing to rad: or df0:
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WHats wrong with adfblitzer ? It does the job fine IMO..
But why not just get Whdload games ? Much more fun running from hardrive :)
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I like both, but I don't suceed to write to RAD: with the GUIs. Always have to cli to write to RAD: ...:-(
Could you send me the configuration of the datatype for directory Opus?
I use Opus 4 (hate the 5.5 style). :headwall:
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I used ADF2Disk,I think it's good!
just dowload it from Aminet
CLI> adf2disk DF0:gamename.adf
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ftp://aminet.net/disk/misc/tsgui.lha
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hum, you want to write to RAD: not to DF0: ... that is quite different !
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Do any of these ADF to disc programs have a decent installer and GUI rather then having to go through the process trying to guess how to make the program work?
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I like TSGUI. It's very easy to use.
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Yeah, I think so.:-D
But where is the RAD: or that "disk on a hd" (I miss the name right now) thing?:inquisitive:
And the configuration for Opus4 (more usefull, and no need "guis"). :-D
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EasyADF (http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=440) - new version currently being worked on with new features as a result of feedback by customers. Supplied with installer, features popup context sensitive help, works on A1200 and A600.
(http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/images/easyadf.jpg)
(http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/images/easyadf2.jpg)
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I like diskwiz.
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Sorry, Leaman, is not that. I really love one transadf gui who permits me to write ADF flies to RAD: or even FMS.device (I remember the name, eheh).
And the "script" to unADF via Opus4.
Simply like that.
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rkauer wrote:
I use Opus 4 (hate the 5.5 style. :headwall:
I use the old faithful Dopus 4 as well. Dopus 5 felt wierd and seemed to be more in control of the Amiga than I was :-D
Yeah 'ADF-Blitzer' could not be easier to use unless you could tell it what to do through a microphone :lol:
If you want to turn a floppy disk in DF0 into an ADF file you just click on the 'Read' button, navigate to where you want to put the file in your hard drive, type a name for it and click on 'OK'.
To unpack an ADF to floppy you just click on the 'Write' button, navigate to the file in hard drive, click on the files name and click on 'OK'
(http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o164/Cyberstorm604e/ADF.jpg)
If you prefer not to type commands then Packmaster is also pretty good. I've just easily unpacked an ADF to floppy disk, a DMS file to RAD (the RAD icon being located in Workbench:Storage/DOSDrivers by the way and appearing on screen as RAM_0), and unpacked an LHA file to RAM :-)
(http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o164/Cyberstorm604e/Packmaster.jpg)
But I couldn't get Packmaster to unpack an ADF to RAD? So I'll have to give Transadf a go like you then pVC :-)
Oh..... or try diskwiz.
A4000 Mad
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Ok, I've already download PackMaster.
But where in the world is the diskwiz?
PS: main Aminet (and the search utility) is down again....
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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.
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Why is everyone so afraid of the Shell? :-(
It doesn't bite!
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Indeed! :-D
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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.
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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
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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.
(http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o164/Cyberstorm604e/Dopus-LHA.jpg)
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
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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-))
(http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o164/Cyberstorm604e/TransADF.jpg)
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
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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
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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.
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I have not seen floppies for sale anywhere in the uk for some years.
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We sell new DSDD 880K floppy disks:
http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=dsdd