Mac OS X to amiga

[Oliver]

I'm assuming you have an Amiga, and want to transfer a disk image from it, via a floppy disk, onto your Mac.  Is that right?

What Amiga and OS do you have?  If you have anything since Workbench 2.1, you will have CrossDos built in.  You may have to activate it though.  If that is the case, you can drag a file named PC0 from your Storage/DosDrivers drawer into your Devs/DosDrivers drawer, and reboot.

You should then format a 720k dos disk, and transfer away.  You may need to use lha or similar archiving tool.

Good luck.

[Oliver]

Oh, didn't know you could run Workbench 3.1 with Kickstart 2.  Do you soft kick?

Do you have a hard drive for the 500?  At least having multiple floppy drives may be helpful.  Otherwise, I'm not sure how you could juggle getting the .adf transferred to a real 880k amiga disk.

[Oliver]

I think the Mac can quite happily format the Dos disk.

[Oliver]

Also, do you know what utilities to use for making the .adf into a real Amiga disk?

[Oliver]

You probably just need to choose to show all files.  Your Workbench is probably only showing any valid icons which it can see on the disk (of which there are presumably none at this time).

[Oliver]

highland wrote:
Yeah Ok that worked , now where can i find a program to extract LHA,It's all so long ago

Try Aminet.  The one I use is just called Lha, and it's a command line program.  Hope that's OK.  Otherwise, you can also download WizArc, a gui for Lha, although it's an Lha archive.  Ha.

edit- I think you will need the command line Lha program to use with WizArc.  I haven't installed it on my Amiga before.

[Oliver]

motorollin wrote:
Go to Aminet and search for lha.run

Then copy this over to your Amiga and run it. It will self extract the lha executable. Copy this to C:.

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moto

But methinks one would still need to use the CLI to extract the MiraWIzArc.lha archive, right?

[Oliver]

motorollin wrote:
Heh yeah, except lha.run unarchives itself :-)

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moto

I think you'll also find that the chicken will unarchive itself from the egg.