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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: evil_nerd on May 03, 2004, 05:19:06 PM
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Hello,
I've found a program called X-Copy III. When I start it there's a little text telling DOSCOPY. This make me think that it is something what I hope it is: Is this one of the programs with which I can read DOS formatted floppys and copy them to an Amiga formatted floppy? If so, how does this work? If not, what is it then for? :-?
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Hi! im not sure about this..but i guess you are talking about one of the options for copying Amiga disks, right?
I mean, you may have some other options instead of DOSCOPY, such as DOSCOPY+ and/or NIBBLE? If that is ok, then is just a way of copying amiga disks only. I never tried to copy a pc formatted disk using X Copy III (i only have previous versions of that program, but i assume they are all quite the same thing)
Regards
Sebastian
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I believe "AmigaDOS" copy is what it means, or basically a standard Diskcopy like the Workbench does.
-Jamie
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I believe "AmigaDOS" copy is what it means, or basically a standard Diskcopy like the Workbench does.
Exactly. DOSCOPY and DOSCOPY+ are AmigaDOS copy modes. It's like the Workbench diskcopy, except the version in X-Copy is fast and reliable. Won't work for non-AmigaDOS stuff, or copy protected disks.
NIBBLE copy will copy some copy protections and non-AmigaDOS disks. Of course, if you can't read the original disk from workbench to begin with, you won't be able to read the copy, either. ;-)
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Hoya!
Boy, another Amiga classic!
OK, 99.9% of the time it was used for dodgy applications but it was nevertheless blazingly faster than the WB command...
Too bad there was no music during operation, like in TurboImploder! ;-)
Be funky
M A D
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OK :)
Is there maybe an other way to copy PC formatted (720Kb) disks to Amiga formatted disks? (I know that newer WB versions include an utilitie for this, but I have Workbench 1.2)
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evil_nerd wrote:
OK :)
Is there maybe an other way to copy PC formatted (720Kb) disks to Amiga formatted disks? (I know that newer WB versions include an utilitie for this, but I have Workbench 1.2)
Dos2Dos or an old version of CrossDos.
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X-Copy TNG will do it if you mount PC0 and PC1.
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X-Copy TNG will do it if you mount PC0 and PC1.
Not much help for his AmigaOS 1.2....
Heck, I don't even think X-Copy TNG, itself will load under 1.2, let alone the AmigaDOS 2.1+ files for PC0 and PC1.
Dos2Dos or an early CrossDOS is the only way that I know of.
And getting either of those to an Amiga, if you have no way of writing Amiga disks is tough, too.
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You could copy PC disks with Xcopy. I don't have a Classic anymore so I can't check but there is one copy mode I used to copy PC disks succesfully...
Don't enable the "V" flag on the destination or the program will try to fix what it reads...
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Is there maybe an other way to copy PC formatted (720Kb) disks to Amiga formatted disks? (I know that newer WB versions include an utilitie for this, but I have Workbench 1.2)
OmniTool from the ProjectD Software-Package is able to duplicate AtariST, MS-DOS, CP/M and Xenix (?) formats.
ProjectD runs from Kickstart 1.2 upto OS3.9.
It was written by Ben Fuller and is distributed by Fuller Computer System INC.
But I don't know if they still exist, because my package is dated 1991.
Markus