Using downloaded software

[BGary335]

I've found that the parallel method is doable...however you need a program called PCtoAmiga. Anyone know how I can get my hands on this? I've searched Aminet repeatedly and can't find it there, though I was told it was there. :-?

[BGary335]

Scrapping the parallel method for the moment. I've finally gotten my Scorched Tanks program over to the Amiga via floppy. Took it form the floppy and put it in my hard drive. Looked in the Scorched Tanks drawer, everything looks ok. click on th executible, and the screen flashes and a dialog box comes up saying "can't open your tool Scorched 1.85". Anyone know what the problem is now? This is getting annoying! :-D

[BGary335]

I tried that, but it still gave me the same message. Instead of bringing the lha file over, I've tried another method-opening the lha on the PC and putting the contents on the floppy instead of the entire lha archive. This method seems to work, except that once I move the files from the floppy to my HD on the Amiga, I click on the executable and it gives me a mesaage saying "your tool Scorched1.85 could not be opened". Anyone know what the problem is now?

[BGary335]

Lou, no I don't have a cd-rom. I'm using an A500, so ocnsidering that I suppose I'm lucky to at least have a hard drive. :-D

Tomas, I will give that a try.

[BGary335]

Ok, trying to extract from the lha file, but I must've installed the LHA program incorrectly. Here's whats happening: I take the LHA file from the floppy and drag it to the the hard drive. I go into the hard drive and install lha there, since that's where my lha files are. It installs fine, except that the three icons that appear are named lha_68k, lha_68020, and lha_68040. The last two don't work atall...when I type in the command and try tp use one of those two, I get some kind of pop up saying there was some kind of error, and to wait for disk activity to finish, and giving me the option to suspend or reboot. When I try to use lha_68k, it goes into the program but then tells me that the archive Scorch.lha could not be opened. Why is that? Have I installed LHA incorrectly?

[BGary335]

Tomas, I am indeed using an A500. I have moved all of the files extracted from the LHA archive into the C drawer as you instructed. I then went back into the hard drive drawer, which is where Scorch.lha is, and clicked on the Shell icon which is also in the hard drive drawer, and it still says that it cannot open the archive.

[BGary335]

Yes, I have renamed it.

I tried the lha x Schorched.lha sys: command and got the same error.

Yes, its getting through. What are you reading? I never mentioned the words double click.

[BGary335]

Yes it is called Scorch.lha, sorry for the typo. I do not see it when I type dir...why would that be?

[BGary335]

Got it!! I moved Scorched.lha into the Workbench drawer and ran LHA from the Shell icon in there, and it extracted!!! As a matter of fact, I'm playing it as we speak!!!

Thanks so much for your help, everyone! Not only can I finally play Scorched Tanks, but I can now find other programs of interest, since I know how to get them from PC to Amiga now! :-D  8-)

[BGary335]

I have one more question for you guys: What does one do with ADF files? Is there a program for the Amiga that can open them, similar to LHA for .lha files? I understand that they are disk images, but most I've seen are a tad too large for a 720k floppy.

[BGary335]

Sounds easy enough. Thanks!

[BGary335]

Question about unacing....I moved an .ace archive over to the Amiga, and when i ran unace it said that the archive was compressed with unknown method. Is there a particular way you have to archive the files in Winace on the PC side?

[BGary335]

Actually, that's pretty much what I did, except the Winace program can create LHa archives, so I used it instead of the program you mention. However, I ran into another problem-after unpacking the LHA archive on the Amiga, I tried the adf2disk command given above by Tomas. Everything seemed to go fine, so I then clicked the floppy icon so that I could make sure that the file was indeed on the disk. When I did htis, I got an error that said there was a disk checksum error, and there was nothing on the disk, even after clicking on Show all. I know the floppy i sok, becuase I've been using it all day long. Does anyone know what the problem is?

Nothing ever goes easy for me (can't you tell?  :-D ). :lol:

[BGary335]

Dandy, that typo was clarified a long time ago.

stopthegop, that's not even an issue. I have plenty of blank 720kb disk, so no need to make them from 1.44MB disks.

[BGary335]

The problem is not with the floppy disk, or the floppy drive. I think its another one of those things where I'm just doing something wrong somewhere between the time I compress the adf file into an LHa archive on the PC to the time I try to adf2disk it onto floppy on the Amiga. In fact, everything is just fine until the adf2disk part, because its after that that I get the error and that nothing appears on the floppy.

[BGary335]

Not sure what happened, but I just now turned my A500 on and put the disk in after Workbench loaded, and now the disk works just fine. Perhaps a restart is required after the adf2disk operation?