Turning ADF files back into Disks

[irishmike]

Hello All:

I have heard of a few people talking about how to get ADF files back into Floppies.  I am wondering about this process, as the ADFs currently reside on my PC and the Amiga as of yet is not even networked to it in any way.   Also I find I can buy regular HD/DS floppies still, but none of the 720K kind that IIRC Amiga uses?  Anyhow, I have Cloanto's Amiga Forever and I have the A3000 and wondered how one would go about transferring the ADFs to Amiga Floppies?  If you can help please feel free to post here or pmail me is acceptable.  If there is a "HOWTO" someplace on the net, would love a URL to it as well.

Thanks,

Mike

[pjhutch]

Some useful links:
http://www.amigaforever.com/faq/#amigaexplorer

http://www.pcguru.plus.com/uae_faq.html

[amigakit]

On the PC you can turn ADF files directly to proper Amiga disks (and vice versa) with the popular Catweasel MK4

[fastrene]

Got the same problem............but i find it a SHAME that software makers for the amiga do not bring a propper way how to use their program this is almost by all the software still on the net !
Even the aminet  has NO explanation how to use whats online lha,adf,lzx on an standard amiga ?no way(if i must believe aminet it must work like it is ??)
Does not work like this on an amiga even the program for converting lha has not a propper way how to use it shame shame shame...
And why not a workbench style program afd=>amiga disk klick ready...........easyer..better and no angry people  !!

[PaSha]

fastrene wrote:
And why not a workbench style program afd=>amiga disk klick ready...........easyer..better and no angry people  !!

You are quite welcome to make one.

EDIT: here... http://www.aminet.net/package.php?package=disk/misc/adfblitzer.lha

personally, "transdisk -w disk.adf" (or whatever it was) is enough.

[amigagr]

adf2disk
adfblitzer

[fastrene]

adf2disk and adf blitzer====> failed return code 20

i did also buy amigatopc parallel cable and software (no manual off corse)just to get bigger programs to the amiga but it wil not work olso failed return code this time 10

How do every body get sofware from the internet to an amiga file`s bigger than 670k are not possible must be pc format max 700k
By example how to get a program 2.1mb to the amiga an lzx file
How to get an adf file 891kb from te pc to the amiga with out having to trie win zip or unzip on the amiga (failed return code 20 )
or is there just no good software annymore ?

[amigagr]

have you ever thought to upgrade your at least 12 years old amiga to 21 century? to buy a usb module for example or to connect her to a network or use a pcmcia2cardflash or, or, or...

-edit-
you can connect a cdrom drive and write cd's to a pc too...
i use all the previus methods. i started once buying a cdrom.
by the time i have made/add all these kind of upgrades

[fastrene]

the usb might be an good idea if there is working software

cd rom will not work allready sold it no good software for it and having a cd rom but not to use it..............

Amiga network allready tried but no good software (amiga===>amiga works great but not to the pc)

[amigakit]

As amije has said, PCMCIA Compact Flash adapter is a good way of transferring a large amount of data between an A1200 and a PC very easily and quickly.

[PaSha]

@fastrene:

Large files: Make multi-volume (=multi-disk) archive files (.lha .zip .whatever). Slow, but works.

paralell cable: PC2Amiga from aminet should be pretty easy to use.

Return codes: The amount of return codes you are receiving, indicates that you have some software problems (missing libraries, devices, wrong tooltypes in icons), possibly caused by buggy crossdos moving.
Are you moving the actual .lha archives from your pc to your Amiga and then unpack them on the Amiga, or do you unpack them on the pc and then move the extracted files to the Amiga via 720kB DOS-disks? The latter is known to cause problems.

A very good GUI-based archive unpacking tool is included with OS3.9, or you can also use lha in CLI (text) mode, download the latest from aminet as a self-extracting archive.

-Paul

[amigagr]

fastrene wrote:
the usb might be an good idea if there is working software

yes the poseidon usb stack that is already registered at 2.x version when you buy a subway usb. it's too cool for much more things to use than only data transfer.

Amiga network allready tried but no good software (amiga===>amiga works great but not to the pc)

i use this
card and except the internet connection with the adsl modem i  can use all the shared drives from pc network to transfer files from pc to amiga and amiga to pc. it's a grate piece of hardware/software too.