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Convert PC Floppy to Amiga Floppy?
« on: August 11, 2008, 11:44:08 AM »
Hi,

Is it possible to convert a PC floppy disk to an Amiga (A500+) floppy? I have some adf games and I want to try them out on the A500+ but I do not have any A500+ floppies left!

Even if I buy A500+ floppies I would still not be able to save the adf on my computer onto those floppies since then the PC would not support them! So what am I to do?

Also would adf files be read directly by the A500+ or I need some conversion tool?

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Re: Convert PC Floppy to Amiga Floppy?
« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2008, 12:18:52 PM »
Sorry if I am asking again, did not understand your answer completely.

So I can just use 3 1/2 floppy disk of my PC as an Amiga floppy disk?

 

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Re: Convert PC Floppy to Amiga Floppy?
« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2008, 12:40:17 PM »
No No, it is the other way round :) I have some adf games on my PC. I want to play these adf games on my A500+. How can I do that? :)

(I think asking this question like this is better :)
 

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Re: Convert PC Floppy to Amiga Floppy?
« Reply #3 on: August 11, 2008, 01:13:23 PM »
I bought a hard drive from eBay the other day so that should be coming soon. The next step I guess is to install Workbench on that hard drive. If I buy a Null Model then can I connect the A500+ to my Laptop and transfer all the software I need like that? or?
 

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Re: Convert PC Floppy to Amiga Floppy?
« Reply #4 on: August 11, 2008, 01:37:16 PM »
Thanks to everyone for the comments ... but I am a little confused. I was hoping I could play some Amiga games easily but seems a much harder task.

I do not have a working workbench at the moment so I think I better start from there. From where can I buy the Amiga Workbench 3.1. I would be interested to later on buy the 3.9 version as well. At AmigaKit it seems the 3.1 Workbench is not for sale.

Also regarding the 'Serial Transfer Cable (PC to Amiga)'; is this the same cable I would need to share an internet connection from my PC to the A500+?
 

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Re: Convert PC Floppy to Amiga Floppy?
« Reply #5 on: August 11, 2008, 03:12:10 PM »
Is there an 060 accelerator card for the A500+?

Yes for now I was only going to install the Workbench 3.1.

btw - doesn't the Amiga Forever package include all the Workbench developed so far? If so then how could I install the Workbench version that come with such a package on my Amiga? Only by using a parallel cable?
 

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Re: Convert PC Floppy to Amiga Floppy?
« Reply #6 on: August 15, 2008, 07:20:42 AM »
Yes I plan to buy one of these to share internet connection on my A500+ as well :)
 

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Re: Convert PC Floppy to Amiga Floppy?
« Reply #7 on: August 21, 2008, 09:15:51 AM »
Thanks to everyone for the replies - I feel I have a good set of potential solutions now and I just have to decide which one to adopt.

@Dandy
So this clockport just gives me the possibility to connect usb devices to my A500+? If so, where would I have to connect it on my A500+?