fat95/adfblitzer

[ckillerh3]

Can you post the specifications of your A-500?
Does it have a Hard Drive?  Do you have more than
one Floppy Drive?  What OS are you running?  Most importantly do you have crossdos working so the system
will recognize PC Dos disks?

A listing above asked if you downloaded the file with
your A-500 but I suspect that you don't have your A-500
on-line / networked.  That would be quite an A-500 !  Certainly not impossible but it would clearly need to have been expanded (like my waistline) to have that machine
on-line. Like an accelerator, HD expansion, ram expansion, etc.  

Anyway, if your A-500 is running workbench 2.5 (??) or higher I believe that CrossDos is built in.  You need to drag the PC0 or PC1 icon from storage into Devices/Dos folder (I think ). That way you can put a low density PC formatted disk 880K into your Amiga and have it read it.

Sooo . . take an 880K amiga disk (I assume you have one that you can sacrifice) format it in your PC and move the adf file to this disk.  Take the disk from your PC and put it into your Amiga 500 and hopefully you will be able to see it.  Run ADFBlitzer and write the file (hopefully) to your 2nd floppy drive.  I'm sure there is a way if you only have one FD, or if you only have one FD and a HD you can move the ADF file to your HD and then use ADFBlitzer to write to your FD.

Good luck - certainly a fun project.  Also if you want to get facny you can get Amiga Forever 2005 a nice emulator for your PC.  You basically convince the PC that its an Amiga (configured any way you want  . . like a basic A500 or a top end machine).  The emulator reads/loads ADF files as a part of the set-up so it is quite easy to run all the old games and programs.  Not quite the same as having it run on a REAL A500 on a 1084S or TV monitor.

L8TR,

cKillerh3

[ckillerh3]

The PC can NOT read the Amiga format disk.
However with CrossDos running the Amiga CAN
read a properly formatted PC disk. You just have
to be mindful what kind of Amiga drive you have ->
Low Density or High Density Drive, and format the
disk accordingly.

Anyway . . .
You take an old Amiga 880 disk and stuff it into your PC. From My Computer you can right click the disk (sometimes when an un-readable disk is inserted the box opens automatically asking "do you want to format the disk")  There are options for high density and low density floppy format.  Just use the drop down and you can blow away the amiga format and make the disk a PC low density disk.

Since I can see you are an Amiga 4000 man you can actually read a regular High Density PC disk in the High Density A4K floppy drive . . . asumming you have CrossDOS running.

Bye bye

[ckillerh3]

Oops that is correct.  It is only 720kb on the PC. I believe that Windows 2000 still allows the low density format from the GUI but WinXP does not (I just checked).  Otherwise the PC DOS command shell is needed as amije says above.  With the crossdos running you can indeed format the disk PC style on your Amiga straight away.

Wow an Amiga 630 with a HD drive.  That is cool ! The one I had only came with the LD drive.  

 >>> Keep in mind, though, our "curious" friend that started the thread has some sort of A500 and is probably limited with the periphials that he/she can connect with.  
ie No PCMCIA card or CD Rom. No specifications listed.  If they had a SCSI sidecar HD with passthrough they could add a SCSI ZIP drive and transfer large files that way.
They just want to transfer over an ADF file probably for a self booting game or something.  Hey "curious" you still out there? :-P

[ckillerh3]

Yup - TurboG16 the "merely curious" person.  I figured he would have a challenge with the task at hand.  Hopefully you gave him some good tips.  Getting a set of Workbench disks and a spare floppy drive would probably get him going.