Convert PC Floppy to Amiga Floppy?

[Dandy]

gertsy wrote:

As ADFs are 880KB you cannot transfer them "natively" to an Amiga on a PC Floppy Diskette.

Of course you can!
All you need for that is a splitter/joiner tool from Aminet.
Split your ADF into two, put the two parts on two PC formatted 3 1/2" disks (720 kB), access them on your Miggy via CrossDos (included in WB since v2.0, IIRC) and (re-)join the splitted parts there.

gertsy wrote:
 
The Amiga can certainly read 750KB PC Diskettes with cross dos (WB2.0+) but not 1.44MB diskettes.

I have to contradict here.
The Amiga CANNOT read 750KB PC Diskettes - no matter if with or without CrossDos - as such things as "750KB PC Diskettes" do not exist and never did!

floppy disk formats

And you can very well read and write 1440 kB PC formatted floppy disks (1760 kB if formatted in Amiga HD-format) on an Amiga - all you need for this is an (Amiga-compatible) HD floppy drive and CrossDos!
Works flawlessly here since over a decade!

3 1/2" disks on an PC can either have a capacity of 720 kB, 1440 kB, 1680 kB, 1720 kB or 2880 kB (most common being 720 kB and 1440 kB).

gertsy wrote:
 
BTW: You cannot format 750KB PC disks on WinXP or above.

Of course you are right - you cannot format 750 kB disks on any x86-PC - but you can format 720 kB.

Click on "Start - Execute", enter "cmd" and press "Enter".
A DOS window opens where you can type "format a: /f:720" and press "Enter". Other values for "f:" are e.g. 360 (5 1/4"), 1.2 (5 1/4") and 1.44 (3 1/2").
(precondition being that you have an appropriate floppy drive fitted to your PC)

gertsy wrote:
 
If you have a Win95/98PC you can format a PC Diskette at 750KB and read it on Amiga 500 with Workbench WB 2+ with cross dos.
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No.
You can format 720 kB, but then you're not limited to Win95/98 PCs.

[Dandy]

sim085 wrote:

Yes I plan to buy one of these to share internet connection on my A500+ as well

If you're planning to access the web with your A500+, my posting in your other thread might be of interest for you:

Dandy wrote:

redfox wrote:
@Sim085

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Not sure if there are add-on parts for USB and network connections.  
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AFAIK you can get an clockport (like the A1200 has) interface for the A500 ( A500 clockport interface ), to which you can connect either an ZorroII Highway card or clockport Subway card from E3B.

I could very well imagine that there are USB-NICs available that basically should enable your A500 for broadband access
(if browsing the web is much fun with those specs remains to be seen - in case you try it your report would be very welcome here, I think).

As driver serves the Anaiis USB stack for limited Amigas:
anaiis.readme

EDIT:
There's a thread on this topic at amigaworld.net

Especially, as it not just offers a possibility to access the web with your A500+, but also gives you access to a wide range of USB devices...

EDIT II:

I forgot to mention that a minimum requirement for the "Subway" is a 68030 CPU @ 25 mHz. So if you want to have USB in an A500, you have to get hold of an A500-accelerator with at least an 68030 @ 25 mHz onboard.

[Dandy]

sim085 wrote:

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@Dandy
So this clockport just gives me the possibility to connect usb devices to my A500+? If so, where would I have to connect it on my A500+?

Hum - if you follow the link I provided to the "A500 clockport interface", you'll see that the text there starts with:

"The Clockport Adapter for the 68k socket of your Amiga 500..."

So it should be clear that you have to remove the 68000-CPU from its socket, plug the clockport interface into the emty CPU socket and plug the CPU into the empty socket on the Clockport Adapter.

As this "A500 clockport interface" offers two clockports, I would bet you can connect all the clockport expansions (mostly with "loop through" clockports) that are available for the A1200 to it - aside from all the USB devices (e.g. memory sticks, SD-card readers, BlueTooth, ...) you can attach, if you connect either an ZorroII "Highway" card (also with clockport connection) or clockport (only) "Subway" card from E3B.

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I forgot to mention that a minimum requirement for the "Subway" is a 68030 CPU @ 25 mHz. So if you want to have USB in an A500, you gotta get hold of an A500-accelerator with at least an 68030 @ 25 mHz.

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I still have two A500 with Viper520 lying around (for one of them I even have a brandnew and unused Zorro-II bus expansion board with A2000 CPU-slot (for e.g. a 2060 accelerator card - too sad that the planned CSPPC for A2k never went into production - imagine an A500 with OS4!) from the Micronik A500-tower-conversion-kit with Micronik keyboard interface for PC keyboards) - and I'm considering to buy an clockport interface together with an "Subway" clockport USB card for both of them. Hopefully I will have the spare time one day to fit it all together...