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Offline darksun9210

Re: Convert PC Floppy to Amiga Floppy?
« on: August 11, 2008, 12:53:13 PM »
hmmm, quite tricky.
i think iirc, WinUAE comes with software to be able to read/write ADF files to and from the amiga over a serial link between the PC and amiga?

or you could get a serial terminal package, boot the A500+ with a basic(!)minimal workbench, just to load the serial software, and adf2disk exe. something like twin express or something. its probably on an old magazine coverdisk if that helps. then you want something like "adf2disk" from aminet to write the copied adf file to floppy disk.

or "amiga forever" package with amiga explorer. that apparently can hook into an amiga over serial, and allow to you drag and drop files/adf's straight to and from the amiga and its floppy drives.

if you just have a basic 1meg A500+, then your options are fairly limited... having some kind of hard disk really opens up possibilities...

over the weekend i copied files to my A600, by pulling the drive out, bolting it into a USB2IDE adapter, plugging it into my PC, and running winUAE to mount the drive as a native amiga drive, and allow access to PC drives from within WinUAE. then i could drag and drop straight from the PC drives, to the amiga drive. take it out, and put it back into the A600... much faster than over serial...

ideally, you either want a CD drive on your amiga to read a CD full of software you've burnt off your PC, or the catweasel, or just shuffle drives. :)

A500, A600, A1200x3, A2000, A3000, A4000 & a CD32.
and probably just like the rest of you, crates full of related "treasure" for the above XD
 

Offline darksun9210

Re: Convert PC Floppy to Amiga Floppy?
« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2008, 12:57:42 PM »
not being funny, but i haven't heard of anyone using those "floppy simulators".
and to be honest, a cable going directly from the amiga floppy port to a parallel/serial port on a PC? yeah, right oh. but unless someone is willing to try this and risk blowing up either their PC or amiga, a call shinanigans on that... as surely if it was that easy, we'd have had this nailed years ago?

looks to me like someone wants to get rid of a job lot of PC floppy cables, and made a botched job of the connections.  :-( (not that i would be able to do any better :lol: )

A500, A600, A1200x3, A2000, A3000, A4000 & a CD32.
and probably just like the rest of you, crates full of related "treasure" for the above XD
 

Offline darksun9210

Re: Convert PC Floppy to Amiga Floppy?
« Reply #2 on: August 15, 2008, 03:05:14 PM »
i think www.amigakit.co.uk have them... :-)

A500, A600, A1200x3, A2000, A3000, A4000 & a CD32.
and probably just like the rest of you, crates full of related "treasure" for the above XD