Reading AmigaDOS-formatted disks ?

[GreatLor]

Hey I am new in here and I have a question;
Is there any program for pc that reads AmigaDOS formatted disks ? I'm VERY desperate for a possible such proggy, I have an Amiga 500 at home (and I DONT have a PC at home, so messydos or crossdos is useless - unless someone can post them/it to me, PHYSICALLY that is) and want some of my old games/demos/proggs back, please please please tell me there is a possibility !

Thanx in advance !  :-)

[GreatLor]

uhhh, I suppose the only possibility then is to have messy-/cross-DOS then right ? jut wonder how on earth I can get one of them !  :-(

[GreatLor]

Yes, piru I have read one of those sites you linked me, but the problem is that I dont have a PC at home, so if the PC absoulutely cannot read amiga-disks then all my hopes are to be relied on the CrossDOS or something, oh my Kickstart is 1.3, so I wonder if any CrossDOS version works with that ?

[GreatLor]

Piru wrote:
Remember that you need someone to set up a bootable floppy with what you can read PC floppies and write ADF images back to amiga disks, and ship copy of floppy to you.

Uhh, I would appreciate further elaboration, I got a little confused, by "floppy" you mean "disk" right ?

Homer wrote:
Maybe one of our local ppl could help you directly ? Which side of the planet are you on and what sort of beer do you have there ?  :pint:

I live in Gothenburg, Sweden !
Oh there all kinds of bear here, however I dont consume much due to terrible headicks  :-)

Noster wrote:

@GreatLor

Do you own a modem and terminal software for the Amiga ? Any modem will do it even an old 2400 baud modem. In that case you may be able to get the required files via the phone-line.

Noster

Unfortunately not, yeah, I can imagine that this would be a nice option too !

Thomas wrote:

The CrossDOS version which comes with WB 2.1 or better works on Kick 1.3 either. The only difficulty is that these floppies are formatted with FFS which cannot be read on Kick 1.3. So you first have to use a Kick 2.0 Amiga to read the disks and copy the required files to OFS floppies so Kick 1.3 can read them.

Bye,
Thomas

 :-?

 :-D

Seriously, that was a little braintwisting, hehe !

[GreatLor]

I want to let you know that I have a progg called "Dos2Dos" with which I formatted some disks in ms-dos format, I also have cross-dos, first time I tested it, it didnt seem to work properly, but now obviously it does, anyway I copies an amiga text-file to one of those disks, and now I'm sitting in front of a pc, and obviously it works, so now comes the question: when I copy lha files to the disks (I have the LHA decruncher) and then at home pack the files up, how do I then copy the content to a disk, not as a file but just copy the file as if it was a disk, cos as you know most amiga-games arent dos-readable, so can you help me ?

*Edit*

Oh and hey, is the "zip"-format the same format as "lha" ? I think I read somewhere that it was the same thing !

[GreatLor]

Do you have any direct link to one of those utils, please ? I will go home 1 our after after I write this post, so I would hope to get some things working today.

*Edit*

How much bigger will lha files become after they are unpacked ?

[GreatLor]

Thank you so much that_punk_guy, sorry for replying so late, but I've been sick, thanx again !

Another question, I formatted some HD files with Dos2Dos (with the same Dos2Dos I also formatted 2 DD disks which worked fine), but when I try to access their contents the dos (dos-prompt) gives error messages, the DD disks work fine though, even when I try to format them with a pc with the command "format a: /f:720" it gives error messages, I REALY NEED to get the pc accepting 720k-formatted HD-disks, is there any program out there to that for me ?

Thanx in advance !

[GreatLor]

That easy huh ? wow, thanx guys, I appreciate it, hey the pc I'm sitting in front of at the moment, does not accept my dd-disks saying the the filesystem is fo the type RAW and that the new filesystem is of the type FAT, is this "system" hardware or software, if its not hardware, then why does the ms-dos refuse to format ?

*EDIT*

DAMN this, the damn MS-DOS either says that "the disk is unusable, either the thing is defect or the track 0 is damaged" or it starts "formatting" but it would take 20 minutes or so to format, I formatted these at home with Dos2Dos and most of them (except a few) didnt have any defections, dammit the luck has totally turned its back against me, it seem I have supernatural forces against me, I keep telling myself "It seem I will NEVER get what I want" ...  :-(

[GreatLor]

Thank you for the explenation, also someone gave me a link to a certain adf2disk progg, so I downloaded it and wend home, and what happens when I type in the sole name ? .. well, the comment says that it's only for OS-2.0 or higher, I have 1.3  :-( , isnt there an END to my anti-luck  :pissed:

[GreatLor]

THANK YOU, but how weird, look at the size-contrast between these proggs:

http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/aminet/disk/misc/Image2Disk.lha

and

http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/aminet/disk/misc/tequilla.lha

 :-?

*EDIT*

Nevermind the first link, compare this one to the one above:

http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/aminet/disk/misc/Devcopy.lha


Tequilla:    190 K
Devcopy:  2 K

 :-?  :-o  :-?  :-o  :-?  :-o  :-?  :-o  :-?  :-o  :-?  :-o  :-?

[GreatLor]

well I say kill the pc and put tyhe amiga back on the throne !!!  :-D