PC to AMIGA (Diskette Questions)

[McSquirrel]

Hi,

as an ADF file is 880KB in size, it may be difficult to put on a 720KB disk... However, many Amigas only come with DD floppy drive, so HD floppies may not work.

So ensure that your Amiga has an HD floppy drive and at least Workbench 2.0 running. Then you can open Shell or CLI and enter "mount pc0:" (to enable reading of MS-DOS formatted floppy disks). If HD floppies don't work, use a DD floppy (or tape the second hole of a HD floppy shut and reformat it), split the ADF into two files (search for a Windows tool called FileSplitter or similar) and rejoin them on Amiga (using JOIN command at Shell). A large Ram Disk or Harddrive may serve as target.

Then you need a tool called TRANSADF or TRANSDISK to transfer the ADF file to an Amiga floppy disk (DD). You find TRANSADF at www.aminet.net or TRANSDISK within WinUAE. Both are command line tools, run them from Shell or CLI.

A quick overview of some data transfer techniques (no real explanation, though) can be found at:

http://mitglied.lycos.de/McSquirrel/en/software/a_exch.htm

If running into problems, feel free to ask again.

-McSquirrel

EDIT: Amigakit and InTheSand were quite fast... or it was me just getting tired...

[McSquirrel]

@amigakit:

In addition to answer 2:
Using the software PC2Amiga (http://www.winuae.de/download/PC2Am308.lha), you can hook up a PC to your Amiga using a serial or parallel nullmodem cable. Not very fast, but cheap. PC side is acting as slave, while you access the PC harddisk from Amiga.