Ways to transfer ADF to actual floppies?

[runequester]

So it seems there's a few different options out there.
What is easiest, simplest and ultimately cheapest?

The caveat is, Im on a linux machine.

There's the easyADF kit which seems really easy, but my miggy is a 2000 and doesnt have a PCMCIA slot. I guess I could buy a cheap 600 just for that purpose

Amiga Explorer advertises being able to do this. Anyone have experience using that under WINE ?
Or experience with it in general ?

There's the catweasel option. Kinda pricey, and I'd have to get a floppy drive for my desktop, which is undoubtedly even more pricey.

Lastly, there's getting a CD ROM drive for the 2000, and just loading a pile of ADF's unto a CD, then using transADF or whichever to write them to floppy


Anything I am missing?

[runequester]

I do have 2.0 ROMs in this box actually but it IS a plain 68000 processor. Hrm

Its starting to look like prowling for a cheap 600 might be the easiest option...

[runequester]

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

sweet. THat may be the solution then. Propably don't have the patience to do it for Beneath a Steel sky or something but for games that are only one or two disks I guess it'll work.

[runequester]

aaand... as a bonus, my desktop doesn't have a serial port as it turns out. Argh