Putting ADF's on floppy w/out a hard drive

[madsjm]

If you don't have a memory expansion, you could do it in a more cumbersome way.
Pack the ADF file with DMS (in UAE). It can be packed into two parts (see DMS helptext). Each of the DMS files stores half of the original floppy's blocks.
You can then copy the two DMS files individually onto floppies and extract them both to an Amiga floppy.
It's time consuming and boring, but it works with a vanilla A500 and 720K floppies.

[madsjm]

Forget about ADF. If you're copying disk images to 720K PC floppies, use DMS. ADF is not a compressed format, but DMS is.

If you have 1 MB ram, you should be able to compress the ADF to DMS in Windows/UAE and copy it to a 720K PC floppy. Then you copy the DMS file to RAM: on the Amiga and unpack it to DF1:
I did this a lot on my A500. And if the DMS file for some reason is bigger than 720K, you can split it like I described.

BTW: Someone mentioned the Catweasel. Catweasel MK4 can read/write non-dos formats like games, trackload demos etc.
The new drivers and image tool work great! Whatever you've heard about poor drivers and lack of support for the Catweasel in the past (I've been one of the guys complaining), it's time to give it a try! It's simply an amazing piece of hardware.  :-)

[madsjm]

BGary335 wrote:
Alright, I want to try DMS. I'm not too familiar with UAE though. Can someone give me a rundown of what I need to do?

- Download WinUAE from http://www.winuae.net/
- Download DMS from http://aminet.net/util/arc/dms111.run
- Download kickstart rom, kick31.zip (buy it from Cloanto or Google it)
- Make a directory somewhere on your drive (e.g. c:\dh0) and put the dms111.run file there.
- Unpack the kick31.zip to somewhere
- Start WinUAE

- Change the following options:
 * ROM: Main ROM file: (open the kick31.rom you unpacked)
 * Hard drives: Add Directory or Archive:
          Device name: dh0
          Volume label: dh0
          Path: c:\dh0
          Read/Write (check)
          (click OK)

- Click start
- In AmigaDOS, type dms111.run
- Click F12 key

- Change the following options:
 * Floppy drives: DF0: (Click the button which says ... and find your adf)

- Click Open, and then OK, and you should be back into AmigaDOS
- Type "dms read name.dms" (without the quotes), where name.dms is the name of your dms file.
- Press the Return key
- You should now have a name.dms in c:\dh0 which you can copy to a 720K floppy and unpack on the Amiga.

[madsjm]

motorollin wrote:

Using DMS might not work very well if your ADFs are copy protected or Non-DOS, as I'm not sure whether DMS can image these disks. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

This is wrong, at least about non-dos ADFs/floppies. And ADFs are never copy protected.