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Title: how to copy ADF
Post by: bigpapagun on March 08, 2016, 03:45:44 PM

I got CF memory card for hard drive on my amiga 4000
 
 I downloaded the complet game library for the amiga but how do I copy it from my PC to the CF card.
 
 the pc cant read the card and  said it need to be formatted I guess I need a software to read and write in amiga format.

Title: Re: how to copy ADF
Post by: amiman99 on March 08, 2016, 06:19:20 PM

Simple answer is to use WinUAE. Plug into the reader and from WinUAE, setup the CF partition as a Amiga Hard Drive.

Title: Re: how to copy ADF
Post by: Havie on March 08, 2016, 09:28:18 PM

Or

I think my CF is formated as FAT32 so PC can read it from Windows.  Then on Amiga side I have CF software and have installed a FAT32 filesystem for AmigaOS.

http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/fat95

Title: Re: how to copy ADF
Post by: amiman99 on March 08, 2016, 10:24:02 PM

Quote from: Havie;805599

Or

I think my CF is formated as FAT32 so PC can read it from Windows.  Then on Amiga side I have CF software and have installed a FAT32 filesystem for AmigaOS.

http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/fat95

This works well for A600/A1200 with PCMCIA CF card, and he has A4000.

Another option (if you have CDROM installed on A4000) is burn them to CD and copy them like that.

Title: Re: how to copy ADF
Post by: paul1981 on March 09, 2016, 01:06:59 AM

Quote from: amiman99;805586

Simple answer is to use WinUAE. Plug into the reader and from WinUAE, setup the CF partition as a Amiga Hard Drive.

Yep, best way indeed. :)

Title: Re: how to copy ADF
Post by: WeiXing3D on March 09, 2016, 03:37:25 AM

I think he is also asking how does he uses (mount) the adf to use them in his A4000.

Title: Re: how to copy ADF
Post by: Oldsmobile_Mike on March 09, 2016, 03:56:03 AM

There's lots of ways to transfer files from your PC to your Amiga.  With appropriate upgrades you can network them, use USB, use various card readers, burn files to CD or DVD, just like any modern computer.  Of course lacking any of those methods, stick your CF in the PC and mount it with WinUAE, as above posts recommend.  Cheers!  :)

Title: Re: how to copy ADF
Post by: bigpapagun on March 09, 2016, 04:10:01 AM

can the CF card be in a usb card reader or does it need to be in a IDE port to be work with WinUAE ?

Title: Re: how to copy ADF
Post by: vince_6 on March 09, 2016, 10:45:56 AM

For HD use of the card with an amiga you need a classic usb card reader on the pc side.
When you plug it on pc you must first clean the disk with diskpart so it could be able to write on it.
Then mount it on WinUAE as an IDE HDD.

Title: Re: how to copy ADF
Post by: paul1981 on March 09, 2016, 12:55:56 PM

Quote from: WeiXing3D;805619

I think he is also asking how does he uses (mount) the adf to use them in his A4000.

Mount a RAD, then write the ADF to RAD with TSgui. There are better solutions but that should be the simplest.

http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/tsgui (http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/tsgui)