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Offline Calen

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Re: ADF -> "real Amiga": Do I need a HDD?
« on: November 29, 2002, 03:09:18 AM »
I wouldnt say its impossible but it for sure could be alot of hassle if it is.

I dunno how you would even get the adfs over to the amiga if you have no hard drive for it but here is a wild idea (bearing in mind its 3am here :-) )

If you had a few megs of spare fast mem..you could load wb from disk..and put the adf image in ram and then get whatever utility you need of aminet and convert it back and and it should write it to a blank disk in its original form. Im just wondering how you will fit the image onto 1 single floppy as the Adfs do come in 900k sizes??  this i'm not clear on.

Anyway you could use a program called split and join which basically would spread the image over 2 floppies which you then could join in up in ram.

Im just rough guessing on all this as im not sure it would work or something i would want to attempt without a HD,  plus as said you will need some free fast memory to possibly even attempt it.

Im guessing  you could link your PC? to the amiga and use it in some way to to get the images over to Amiga Ram then do it, perhaps others have done this in some way  or could help ya more on it...
This way would be easier and make alot more sence, the other is madness :-)

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Re: ADF -> "real Amiga": Do I need a HDD?
« Reply #1 on: November 29, 2002, 03:28:55 AM »
Finding a hard drive for your Amiga and getting net access for it would sure make it alot less complicated. You could link the Amiga and PC together also if you dont have the a modem for your Amiga.
 I'm not very sure but i dont think the floppy drives in PC's can read or write in Amiga format.
 

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Re: ADF -> "real Amiga": Do I need a HDD?
« Reply #2 on: November 29, 2002, 03:59:33 AM »
I think you need TransADF which you can get of Aminet
Load WB from floppy and link your PC and Amiga together in how you read up on...copy over the ADF image into the Amiga ram disk and the use the utility for converting em back to Amiga format.


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what is the format that adf-files should be converted to?

It should put the games back onto floppy in there usally original non-dos state ready to boot

Have some blank disks at the ready.

Gnite.