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Re: ADF's on a real AMIGA? LHA's to an AMIGA , HOW?
« on: December 18, 2002, 10:03:40 AM »
Firstly we need to know what model of Amiga and OS version you are using and does it have a harddisc and how much memory does it have.

If you have a 1/2 or 1 Meg A500 getting ADFS back to real disk is going to be very difficult and a second or third disk drive is really needed.
Boot Workbench 1.3 in DF0:
720K PC disk in DF1:
Blank disk in DF2: to uncompress the image onto

An uncompressed ADF is 880K a PC disk that a standard Amiga can read is 720K I guess you see the problem here already.
So you have to compress the adf image to get it under 720K. Use LHA for MSDOS

On your Amiga you'll need CrossDos or MessyDOS to read a PC formated Disk.

You'll need adf2disk to convert it back

Directory OPUS is a file manager it can be configured with scripts to do a lot of things automatically.

WHDLOAD is a system where by NDOS Amiga games can be installed on to a Harddisc. Usually these disks (Games Mostly) have a custom bootblock and are not readable by the operating system.

Its not possible to turn an adf back into a disk in a regular PC. PC's cannot write 880K disks**

** there are various hacks available or specialist hardware you can buy for your PC.


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