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Re: transfering amiga game file from net to amiga
« on: January 27, 2006, 02:59:41 AM »
Similar to foleyjo, I used to:

Get the adf of the net with my PC, copy those each one to a PC floppy (1.4Mb), on the Amiga side I was lucky enough to have a High Density external floppy drive and cross-dos (the Amiga's PC floppy reading software).

So now I have the adf file on the Amiga's harddrive, I used ADF2Disk to convert the image back onto a real Amiga floppy.

To do all this you need:

-An Amiga with a harddrive!
-A high density floppy drive
-Some old blank Amigha disks
-Patience.

Nowdays, I just use WinUAE, its a lot easier.

But if your determined, You might be able to get those adfs onto your A600 using a PCMCIA - Compact Flash adapter in the A600 slot?  

Write adf's to the CF card on PC, insert the PCMCIA-CF card into the A600 and convert the files using ADF2Disk (see Aminet).  

I dont know if this will work, I never got it to work on my A1200 but it coulve been the PCMCIA-CF adapter I had was incompatable with the Amiga, I started using WinUAE and never botherd to solve it.  
 
 

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Re: transfering amiga game file from net to amiga
« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2006, 12:10:29 PM »
You should be ok, ADF2Disk comes in a LHA file that will be openable from the CF card/media.  Of course you'll need an app' to decompress the LHA archive before you can run it though! Something like Directory Opus I think?

I had a similar problem a few years ago trying to get CrossDos on my Amiga; I needed crossdos to read the PC floppy to access & install crossdos... Doh!  My local Amiga dealer wanted $AU50-60 for a copy, he lost my support.

Good luck!