ADF -> "real Amiga": Do I need a HDD?

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You can do the following:

1) Pack the ADF on the PC using a program like RAR ( use an older version of WinRAR as the miggy version of UNRAR isn't very compatible ).

2) Put the RAR file on a 720k floppy.

3)Create a custom Workbench disk for your miggy, remove all uneccesary commands and programs.

4) Copy *insert your favourite ADF to disk program here* and unRAR to the custom floppy.

5) Boot from the custom floppy.

6) Insert the floppy with the RAR file on, run Cross-DOS, and unpack the RAR-file onto the RAM-disk.

7) Write the ADF stored on your RAM-drive onto a floppy

Re-boot and play your game!  :-D

[whabang]

Piru wrote:
> 2) Put the RAR file on a 720k floppy.

Obviously this only works if the ADF get compressed enough so that it fit the disk. Some games and demos use compression themselves and then RAR can't compress it enough.

Then you make the archive span over two 720k files...

BTW, I've never seen that happen ( not saying that it's impossible, though. ), but then I generally use multiple volumes to compress a load of ADFs at one time...