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Re: Nearly there some help please!
« on: February 06, 2007, 08:20:01 PM »
@rja4096: Hello and welcome to A.Org!

You're almost there...

You'll need:
7zip or something similar on the PC to compress the ADF into a ZIP file (don't worry about a PC version of LHA), or you could even use the ZIP functionality built into Windows XP
UnZip for the Amiga
lha  self-extractor so that you can extract the UnZip archive
ADF2disk so that you can write the ADF back to floppy

I have to disappear now for a while, will post the rest later if nobody's responded!  :-)

In a nutshell: you'll need to run the LHA file, which will give you an executable of LHA... Then use that to uncompress UnZip and ADF2Disk (all to the RAM disk).

As you have no hard drive  :-o  you'll have to run most of this from RAM: or alternatively, butcher a backup of your Workbench disk to make enough space for at least UnZip and ADF2Disk.

Finally, you'll need to compress the ADF on the PC, copy that to 720Kb disk, then on the Amiga, extract that file directly from the PC disk to RAM:, and finally write out the ADF from RAM: to a fresh blank disk.

I might consider putting a quick tutorial together for this, with screenshots, if it's of use!

 - Ali