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Offline ChartusTopic starter

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A3000 question
« on: March 05, 2011, 03:41:54 AM »
I am just wondering how you get your downloads or other information from you PC to the amiga.  The A600 and A1200 have the pcmcia ports and CF cards.  What do A3000 use.
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Re: A3000 question
« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2011, 04:11:03 AM »
Floppy, as a last resort. Network or USB is preferable. External CD drive is also an option.
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Re: A3000 question
« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2011, 06:32:48 AM »
A null modem cable and Amiga Explorer. Works flawlessly with my old PC and A3000.
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Re: A3000 question
« Reply #3 on: March 05, 2011, 08:16:51 AM »
Quote from: Matt_H;619803
Floppy, as a last resort. Network or USB is preferable. External CD drive is also an option.




Floppies are rare in the PC world now.  How do you connect an external CDrom
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Re: A3000 question
« Reply #4 on: March 05, 2011, 08:40:36 AM »
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A null modem cable and Amiga Explorer. Works flawlessly with my old PC and A3000.
How much speed do you get out of a serial cable?  I just crawled out from under my desk checking to see if I had a serial port.  Nope.  I kew I lost a parallel port in my last build but I thought I still had 1 serial port.
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Re: A3000 question
« Reply #5 on: March 05, 2011, 08:41:43 AM »
Quote from: Amiduffer;619811
A null modem cable and Amiga Explorer. Works flawlessly with my old PC and A3000.


The most economical solution: see Amiduffer reply.
The fastest solution (transfer rate): the DENEB card!
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Re: A3000 question
« Reply #6 on: March 05, 2011, 09:00:04 AM »
Or buy a Buddha IDE controller and IDE/CompactFlash adapter.
Then you can swap files easily between PC and A3000 with a CF card.
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Re: A3000 question
« Reply #7 on: March 05, 2011, 04:23:19 PM »
When I had an A3000, zorro2 ethernet cards like Commodores a2065 were the most convenient way to get things off the net servers.  Null modem (serial) and  parnet (parallel port) cables to another machine were another popular alternative.  SCSI to SCSI setups were also possible. The most practical solution to get lots of data to an A3000 is probably to find an old scsi CDROM drive and appropriate filesystem software setup for the A3000.
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Re: A3000 question
« Reply #8 on: March 05, 2011, 05:00:46 PM »
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The most practical solution to get lots of data to an A3000 is probably to find an old scsi CDROM drive and appropriate filesystem software setup for the A3000.


I have an external SCSI drive and cable. If the OP is interested, PM!
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Re: A3000 question
« Reply #9 on: March 05, 2011, 06:13:21 PM »
Quote from: Chartus;619819
How do you connect an external CDrom
Several steps need to be taken:
- connect one end of scsi-cable to A3000;
- connect other end of scsi-cable to external cd-rom drive*.

The cd-rom drive is now connected. :-)

*it would help if the cd-rom drive in question is a scsi drive...
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Re: A3000 question
« Reply #10 on: March 05, 2011, 07:12:51 PM »
Quote from: Chartus;619823
How much speed do you get out of a serial cable?  I just crawled out from under my desk checking to see if I had a serial port.  Nope.  I kew I lost a parallel port in my last build but I thought I still had 1 serial port.


Not very fast. However, I'm willing to put up with it because it was the cheapest route. Trying to transfer files by floppy disks drove me crazy.
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Re: A3000 question
« Reply #11 on: March 05, 2011, 07:24:13 PM »
Quote from: Chartus;619800
I am just wondering how you get your downloads or other information from you PC to the amiga.  The A600 and A1200 have the pcmcia ports and CF cards.  What do A3000 use.

http://aminet.net/package/comm/net/ParNFS
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Re: A3000 question
« Reply #12 on: March 05, 2011, 08:45:15 PM »
Quote from: Amiduffer;619846
Not very fast. However, I'm willing to put up with it because it was the cheapest route. Trying to transfer files by floppy disks drove me crazy.


pc2amiga and laplink is quite fast.
just double check the pinout, parallel port seems to be more 'sensitive' than serial.
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