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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: tonyk on December 07, 2003, 03:17:01 AM

Title: ADF to Floppy
Post by: tonyk on December 07, 2003, 03:17:01 AM: After many many years I finally got my amiga500 back from my Dads house. However all the disks, manuals, etc. are long lost.

Would someone provide very basic instructions for converting adf files (which I have downloaded to my PC running Windows98) to floppies that I can then use on the amiga.

Thanks for the help.
T
Title: Re: ADF to Floppy
Post by: fragment on December 07, 2003, 10:30:15 AM: You cannot write Amiga floppies with PC without special hardware. The best solution would be to ask a friend with networked Amiga to write the floppies for you. If that is not possible, then the cheapest way is to use a nullmodem cable between your PC and Amiga. See here (http://homepage.uibk.ac.at/homepage/c725/c72578/amiga/) for instructions and software for Amiga and PC. The only problem is that you need at least a working Workbench disk... Using a nullmodem cable is also quite slow. It takes about 8 minutes to transfer one image.
Title: Re: ADF to Floppy
Post by: mantisspider on December 07, 2003, 11:22:46 AM: i burnt the adf files to a cd and stuck them on my amigas harddrive. but once there i cant seem to un-pack them.
Title: Re: ADF to Floppy
Post by: Nick on December 07, 2003, 11:27:44 AM: There is some software I used on my A500+ when it wa smy only computer all those years ago. It should work on anything though. It can read PC FDs. It is on an original disk though for something called EDLP something or other. Maybe you could find it somewhere. It was very slow but worked most of the time. I used to get stuff from the PCs at college onto my A500+, often.
Title: Re: ADF to Floppy
Post by: haymiggan on December 07, 2003, 11:36:09 AM: Mantis: Try making an image in MakeCD using WINUAE on your PC and then try to unpack them on your amiga...
I had the same problem as you once, alot of the lha/lzx were corrupt.

I guess you could use a packed archieve adf (size < 720KB) and put that on a DD disk formatted using PC0 on amiga. And then use ADFBlitzer(from aminet)
Cheers,
Povl
Title: Re: ADF to Floppy
Post by: Piru on December 07, 2003, 11:42:21 AM: @mantisspider

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i burnt the adf files to a cd and stuck them on my amigas harddrive. but once there i cant seem to un-pack them.

Probably because they're not packed. ADF is a direct image dump of the disk (880*11*2 512 byte blocks). ADZ files are gzipped ADF files.

You need a tool like TransADF (http://www.aminet.net/disk/misc/TransADF.lha) to write the ADF/ADZs back to amiga disks.
Title: Re: ADF to Floppy
Post by: mantisspider on December 07, 2003, 12:31:45 PM: cheers.

I just installed os3.9 and one of my partitioned became unreadable so atm trying to fry this bigger fish than my lack of games. Oh why cant problems be nice and simple ones.

Well im taking her to Bath so everyone better hide when i get there cos im bashing some ears for help.
Title: Re: ADF to Floppy
Post by: pjhutch on December 07, 2003, 01:25:05 PM: First, download a copy of Winuae and install on your PC, in the 'Amiga Programs' folder, there is a file called 'transdisk', copy this to your Amiga (use CrossDos, MSH or serial transfer etc)
Then copy the ADFs to your Amiga somehow and write them to disk using the command:
transdisk -w disk.adf
(where disk.adf is the name of the adf file)

For more info see: http://www.pcguru.plus.com/uae_faq.html
:-)
Title: Re: ADF to Floppy
Post by: Speelgoedmannetje on December 07, 2003, 04:32:07 PM: Or use a catweasel controller, use a serial cable with Cloanto's Amiga Explorer. Otherwise it's really messing around I think.