Downloading amiga games

[AmigaEd]

It is true that the serial port transfer can be slow, but it can also provide a means to get some new software over to his A500.

I have used ADF Sender Terminal in the past. It works well on my slow old K62-380Mhz with XP. I believe that it comes with Transwarp for the Amiga and includes good documentation on how to get started transferring files. (Even if you don't have any serial port comms software on the A500). (you will still need the null modem adapter or cable)

I believe that it takes about 25 to 30 minutes to transfer a 880K adf.

This can still be useful even if you decide go the emulator route. You can use it to transfer your favorite disk images from your A500 to your PC and then run them on the emulator.

-AmigaEd

[AmigaEd]

It's true you can use a nullmodem cable, but that only works if you have some kind of terminal software on your amiga already. If you don't, how are you going to transfer it?

Additional terminal software is not required to intially get transwarp on to your Amiga system.

As stated above, the Transwarp application can be sent from your IBM PC and copied to disk or ram disk as follows...
1.) Set serial port prefs on amiga to match those on IBM PC. (it might be best to start at 19200 baud. You can experiment with faster speeds later.)

2.) Run ADF Sender Terminal program on IBM PC

3.) Now at cli issue the following... copy SER: RAM:Transwarp

4.) On the IBM PC select the Transwarp file and send.

Once transwarp has been transferred to the amiga, you can then use it to transfer ADF files from the IBM PC to 880K disks on the Amiga or the other way around. From the floppy to an ADF image file on the IBM PC.


-AmigaEd