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Re: Ways to transfer ADF to actual floppies?
« on: April 09, 2010, 04:30:07 AM »
Quote from: desiv;552365
OK, I can tell you for sure that ADF Sender Terminal ( http://adfsender.stoeggl.com/ ) running under WINE in Linux works for transferring floppies to the Amiga who was running transwarp.

I just installed it (I chose the ZIP package, unzipped and ran the installer with WINE), chose COM1 19,200.

I told the Amiga : transwarp -w ser: -b 19200

I hit enter.  Went to the PC, selected the image of Firepower I DLd.  And it started transferring.

Several  ...  several ... several minutes later (It is serial! :-), it was done.  Rebooted, and Firepower started...

The fastest I was able to transfer on my Amiga 500 safely was 19,200.  (The laptop I was using had this REALLY old USB-serial port adapter.  I think you're supposed to be able to get to 38,400 with a standard A500.
I'll have to see how fast I can transfer to the A1200....

desiv


That's like 13X slower than reading from a floppy drive which is 250kbits/second.  Still much faster than hand entering the hex codes.

Is that transwarp a small program that doesn't rely on a bunch of libraries and where is it storing the ADF?  I tried Access terminal software once to transfer ADFs to Amiga using Windows Terminal program, but the software was huge that a 1MB A500 didn't have enough RAM disk space to read in the ADF.  It would be useful if it can copy directly to physical disk or run within a few kilobytes (including all libraries) so it doesn't hog up much RAM.
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