Amiga Explorer on Workbench 1.3.3

[doctorq]

Hi,

has anyone managed to uncompress ADFs using Amiga Explorer between a Windows XP machine and a Amiga 500, with 512 KB chip ram, 512 KB fast and only the build in floppy drive?

It can perfectly well set up the executable on the Amiga, I can copy a small text file, but I can't uncompress an ADF directly to the floppy drive. On the Windows side it just gives an error saying "Unknown command" and the log doesn't give any indications at the first quick glance.

The same file uncompresses nicely on my Amiga 600 (although booted from CF card).

Can it be done on a single floppy based Amiga 500 with Kickstart 1.3 and only 1 MB ram? If yes, how?

[doctorq]

OK, I have messed around a bit, and reducing the buffer size to 2048 makes it possible to unpack an adf onto the Amiga.

Only problem is, it's so PAINFULLY SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW that the program itself isn't useable, as it took more than 15 minutes and then still haven't finished writing the disk. On the A600 it takes around 3-5 minutes to write the disk, in that's with adfverify set to yes, on the A500 addverify was set to no, which should make it write the disk even faster.

Anyone with more luck than me??

[doctorq]

I have tested some more, and tried with a 512 byte buffer instead of 2048 bytes. Started the transfer, and 13 minutes later it has completed a third of the whole transfer with adfverify disabled. It stops, giving me an error saying "There has been a conflict accessing the Amiga Explorer resources" so it seems like it drops the connection down the line.

Booted my A600 with CF hdd, also with only 1 MB ram and 68000 CPU, and started the transfer of the same file, this time with adfverify enabled and 4096 bytes buffer, and the transfer completes succesfully in around 9 minutes.

Still a long time to wait for getting a single disk done, so still very slow, but at least useable. I guess an A500 simply isn't up for the task.

-edit-

Sorry, just checked an had adfverify disabled on the A600 as well.

[doctorq]

Well, I could just stick my 030 accelerator in it. I'll just stick with what works; it would have been nice if Amiga Explorer had worked right out of the box on my Amiga 500 as well, but since it doesn't it's being shelfed instead.

[doctorq]

Update

I managed to get it up and running; it's still slow, but useful for those without any other choice.

After freeing up some space on the Workbench floppy disk and doing the installation of Amiga Explorer once again, I managed to get a stable connection (I know, it doesn't make sense but worked for me).

It still took 10 minutes to write a disk though :-(