Getting data from PC to Amiga

[murple]

There are a bunch of CF-PCMCIA adapters like the one AmigaKit sells. They work fantastic, and using the CF and FAT filesystem drivers on Amiga means you can use DOS/Windohs formatted flash cards to transfer easily.

Linux does support Amiga filesystem which I use pretty often for backing up Amiga hard drives (and now Flash IDE disks). I can't tell you much about Windohs since I switched my PC to Linux from MS-DOS 6 & Windohs 3.1 haha. WinUAE exists and is popular, and I think supports AFFS.

An A1200 compatible PCMCIA ethernet card costs $20-30 and will let you transfer over your LAN or the internet, which is another option.

[murple]

mdv2000 wrote:
Any way to get a CompactFlash drive to work with an Amiga 500?

Not without finding either an IDE or PCMCIA controller for your 500. I'm pretty sure only one of those exists.

If you can find a SCSI controller for the 500, you might be able to find an IDE to SCSI adapter, but that may not exist either.

[murple]

Yes, CF to IDE will cost you about $5 US. You will have to find IDE for your 500 though, which could be hard to find and more expensive than just buying a 2000 or 1200. If you already have IDE on your 500 though, no problem.

I don't know if there are CF to SCSI adapters, or if there are IDE to SCSI adapters that you can use if you have SCSI on your 500.

I don't think anybody ever made a PCMCIA port for 500s.