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Re: Mac OS X to amiga
« on: February 06, 2006, 01:00:04 PM »
Oliver's answer is still correct. You need to mount PC0 on your Amiga so it can read DOS floppies, which can also be read/written on your Mac. Format a DOS disk on a PC, put it in your Mac, copy the ADF file on to it along with transdisk from Aminet, put the floppy in your Amiga, and use transdisk to write the ADF to a disk.

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Re: Mac OS X to amiga
« Reply #1 on: February 06, 2006, 01:05:47 PM »
I don't know whether a disk formatted in DOS format on a Mac would work on an Amiga. I haven't got a floppy drive on my Mac to try it :-) Worth a go though. If it doesn't work just format it on a PC.

ADF2Disk can be used to write the ADF back to a real Amiga floppy (sorry not transdisk as I said earlier).

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10  IT\'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
20  FOR C = 1 TO 2
30     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA
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Re: Mac OS X to amiga
« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2006, 01:39:23 PM »
And make sure you are opening PC0 not DF0 :-)

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10  IT\'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
20  FOR C = 1 TO 2
30     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA
40     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAAA
50  NEXT C
60  NA-NA-NAAAA
70  NA-NA NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA NAAA-NAAAAAAAAAAA
80  GOTO 10
 

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Re: Mac OS X to amiga
« Reply #3 on: February 06, 2006, 02:50:46 PM »
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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10  IT\'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
20  FOR C = 1 TO 2
30     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA
40     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAAA
50  NEXT C
60  NA-NA-NAAAA
70  NA-NA NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA NAAA-NAAAAAAAAAAA
80  GOTO 10
 

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Re: Mac OS X to amiga
« Reply #4 on: February 06, 2006, 04:47:15 PM »
Yup. Lha.run extracts the lha executable, which goes in C:. Then "lha x MiraWizArc.lha" extracts the WizArc application. Then you can use WizArc to more easily extract the lha archives containing the ADFs.

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10  IT\'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
20  FOR C = 1 TO 2
30     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA
40     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAAA
50  NEXT C
60  NA-NA-NAAAA
70  NA-NA NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA NAAA-NAAAAAAAAAAA
80  GOTO 10
 

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Re: Mac OS X to amiga
« Reply #5 on: February 06, 2006, 05:06:10 PM »
Heh yeah, except lha.run unarchives itself :-)

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10  IT\'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
20  FOR C = 1 TO 2
30     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA
40     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAAA
50  NEXT C
60  NA-NA-NAAAA
70  NA-NA NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA NAAA-NAAAAAAAAAAA
80  GOTO 10
 

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Re: Mac OS X to amiga
« Reply #6 on: February 06, 2006, 05:13:25 PM »
Only if there was a chicken in the first place to lay the egg from which the chicken hatches itself. But then there had to be an egg for that chicken to come from, which would mean.............

I could go on.

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10  IT\'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
20  FOR C = 1 TO 2
30     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA
40     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAAA
50  NEXT C
60  NA-NA-NAAAA
70  NA-NA NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA NAAA-NAAAAAAAAAAA
80  GOTO 10