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Offline alx

Re: ADF to Amiga, pls help.
« on: June 26, 2003, 11:18:34 AM »
@NitrousB

I think you've got it the wrong way round - Disk2FDI is needed to transfer Disk -> ADF.

@HexDump

ADF -> Disk is different.  Firstly, you need to get the ADF file over to the Amiga.  The Amiga and PC can both read double-density IBM formatted floppies, but the Amiga needs a tool called "Cross Dos" to read them.  The ADF file probably won't fit on the disk, so you'll need to compress it, as a LHA or ZIP for instance.

You'll then have to get the file onto the Amiga, and you could have a problem.  I've got a hard drive and 10Mb of RAM.  What I think you'll have to do is uncompress the ADF onto the RAM.  If should fit, but you may have to not open workbench to save memory.

Now the ADF is on the Amiga, you need to write it to disk.  There is a tool called "ADF2Disk" availible - find it on Aminet.  It's tiny, so put it in your sys:c drawer.  In therory, you should then be able to place a disk in DF0: and type in at the shell:

adf2disk ram:file.adf df0:

I managed to do this with an unexpanded A1200 with 2Mb of RAM, but I've no idea how you'll manage without that.  I also had a cross-DOS disk - if you don't you could have problems (since you need it to transfer files to the 'miggy).

A lot of people have used serial links with success - that might be better for you.  If you don't understand any of this, tell me and I'll try to explain it more clearly :-)

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