Using downloaded software

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Oh yes, its relatively painless to use a floppy to move files.

On the PC side, format a DD floppy and make sure it formats at 720k, and not the regular 1.4k, and then your amiga can read them.

Make sure that your Amiga has CrossDos setup in order to read the floppy.

And PC0: has to be in your DEVS drawer.

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Which model Ami are you using, and what version of the OS.

The later OS' came withh it. Just read the manual.

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Do you have a HD attached to it?

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My its been such a long time since I've bothered with 2.4. I don't think CrossDos was included, though I might be wrong, since I never bothered with it when I had it.

Choices: Get your Amiga 500 online and download it directly.

Have someone snail mail you a disk with CrossDos

Buy it from one of the retailers.

Do a direct phone connection Amiga to Amiga and transfer it from someone who's got it.

Upgrade that 500 to 3.0

edit: CrossDos in Storage in 2.4? hmmm. Gotta look at it when I get home.

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Hi BGary, quite an adventure, huh?  :-D

Ok, lets see, ok, you have the Scorched.LHA file on your 720k floppy. Copy it to your HD.

Take a look in your C: drawer, and there should be a program called LHA, which is what you use to unpack, if not, you have to download it from Aminet, or there should be a copy in that pile of disks you got. Copy it to the C: drawer.

Go into WB and look for the Shell program, which brings up a command line.

Bring up Scorched.LHA wherever you have it on your HD.

Type lha -x scorched.lha dh1:{name of the drawer you've got for this} and that should unpack the entire thing to the drawer.

If there was a problem in downloading the scorched file, it might be missing stuff.

Hope that works. Scorched is a pretty cool game.

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The correct command is:

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lha x scorched.lha dh1:foo/bar/bleh[b]/[/b]
...where 'x' means extract, and dh1:foo/bar/bleh is the drawer to extract to. The last / is mandatory.

Whoops, pardon my typo.

If you want the list of LHA commands, just type LHA in the shell, then you won't fall for my mistakes.  :lol:

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 :-D  :-D  :-D  :banana:

Good work everyone!  :cheers:

Blow 'em away BGary!  :destroy: