Using downloaded software

[Tomas]

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[Tomas]

You can use a program called adf2disk to write them back onto a real amiga floppy. I think most will fit on the floppy if you compress them with lha or zip. You can use winace for files bigger than 720k and split them up and use unace on the amiga.

You can find both unace and adf2disk for free on aminet. You basicly do this on amiga side: adf2disk filename.adf and then insert a empty floppy.

[Tomas]

SamuraiCrow wrote:
I've never used unace or WinAce so I'm not sure if I can help you with those, but if you want to LHa compress an ADF on the Windows command prompt you can download LHaNT and although you'll still have to type the commands, they are the same commands as the Amiga version uses.  Note: the linked file above is an LHa archive so you'll probably have to unpack it to PC0: on your Amiga.

I think the reason for using ace is because he wants to split the archive up as some adf images are bigger than 720k compressed. I dont think lha can do this?

The reason for unace not working, might be that he use a too new version.. I would try a older version that is closer to the age of unace.

[Tomas]

Got another question: I'm currently working with some .adf files that have odd names, and adf2disk seems to have a difficult time with such files. For example, one file I'm working with has a title that looks like this (x=letters of the file name):XXXX - XXXXX XXXXXXXX-XXXX-X.adf.

Just rename it.. You can even rename it on the amiga so no problems..

[Tomas]

Hmmm - if the disk is readable on the PC without probs, I'd assume that either the heads of your Amiga floppy drive need to be cleaned or they need a calibration. I have a weak remembrance that there was a tool for this - maybe on Aminet...

Do anyone have more info on this? I have a strong feeling that one of my a500 disk drives suffer from this problem. The problem is that this amiga has problems reading floppies that has been formatted in a different amiga while the ones formatted on this works just fine..

[Tomas]

BGary335 wrote:
Another question:I have been using Winace to compress my adf files into lha archives. I've just about finished compressing all of my adf files, but there are a handful that Winace was not able to compress enough to fit them onto a 720k floppy. In fact, it did not compress them at all-they were 880kb before and 880kb after compression. Is there another program for the PC that might be able to compress these files into lha archives small enough so that they can fit on floppy?

That is what i use winace for actually.. you can compress to ace while splitting up the archive to for example 710kB each, and then you copy those 2 files over to your amiga and run unace.
you will probably need a version of winace that is at least a few years old though as the amiga version is not up2date.

[Tomas]

Yes, that is probably it.. I think i recall that i had to do the same.

[Tomas]

BGary335 wrote:
One more question: Is there a way to use regular 1.44MB floppies with the Amiga? I once heard thatall you have to do is cover the window on the upper left corner of the disk, but I don't know whether there's any truth to that. Thanks in advance for your help!

you dont even need to cover the other hole if you format it under workbench. On a amiga it works just like a normal DD.
But if you want to format it on the pc, then you do indeed have to cover the hole.