tonyyeb wrote:
Thanks for the tips guys.
Now for the hard part. How do I get any of these items of software onto my Amiga from my PC?
EDIT: Plus anyone got a link to some kicking software that will work on my A3000? (Allowing the SCSI harddrive to remain available).
The old way is to use the floppy disk using Cross DOS.
I think teh first question really is, "What Amiga OS disks do you have to install on the hard drive?"
If you have OS3.x then you'll have a handy PC0: icon you can drag into your DOS Drivers folder to enable the floppy to read DSDD floppy disks (720KB).
From there I'd download LHA, FAT95 and TSGUI from Aminet.net.
LHA: Because nearky everything you download will be compressed using LHA and it will allow Amiga disks (which are larger than the PC disk capacity) to be compressed transferred over to the Amiga where you can use the shell command:
LHA PC0:
X
and the archive will be unpacked into RAM: where you can then drag it to your hard drive. Note that the LHA command needs to go into your SYS:C draw.
FAT95: Because you can then use long file names with FAT16. Also, if you have a IOmega ZIP100 plus then you can FAT16 format a disk and use it via the SCSI port on the Amiga and the parallel port on the PC for swapping files in bulk.
TSGUI: The easiest way I've found for turning an ADF back into a real Amiga floppy disk. Just drag the uncompressed folder out of RAM: and onto your hard drive and start unpacking those ADFs to floppy. With this, if you need someone to send you a disk then you canask them to LHA it, email it to you, copy it from the PC to a floppy, stick the floppy in the Amiga and use LHA to extract teh image to RAM: and then use TSGUI to write teh extracted ADF to a real floppy.
Alternatively, I strongly recommend buying OS3.9 and a Deneb USB 2.0 card and do all your transferring by USB memory stick. :-)
