After nearly 7 years with barely any access to an Amiga, I picked up an A2000HD with scsi card and 2.0 ROMs today for $10AUS. This means some of the pics and files I'd not been able to get to for years are now accessible. woohoo!
Now - with my Amiga knowhow faded down to somewhere near nil, I need a little help on the best way to move the files from Amiga->Macs. I have a good range of Macs from the 1980s to today (about 70 of them), and figure the two easiest options are...
1. Connect the Amiga to a Mac with a serial cable, and xmodem/zmodem/etc them across. This depends on me finding a terminal app on one of the floppies I have that still works. I'm pretty sure there's one there, but I'll have to run through about 200 disks to make sure.
2. Format a spare scsi HD as DOS, mount it on the Amiga, dump my files across to it, then connect the HD to a mac and copy them off. I'm OK with the Mac side of things, but about all I can remember on the Amiga side is the term Crossdos and something to do with mountlists - it all fades so very quickly
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Any pointers for #2? What DOS format do HDs need to be for the Amiga to readily read them, and what's the best online reference for getting the Amiga to read/write to the HD well?
I have Wb2 and 3.something here to use, if I need.
Dana
