Amiga Explorer vs. my intelligence

[_caddy_]

just playwith it until it works, that's my advise

you have it setup right, i can tell you that much

i used version 4.1 and that worked fine

try increasing the buffers on the amiga side, not the pc side

in serial prefs

[adolescent]

@ArthurDent

The Prefs/Serial should have no effect on AExplorer (at least after the initial setup).  You set the settings via the AExplorer icon tool types.  

I'd suggest turning on logging (PC side from the Properties page/Options tab, Amiga side from the tool types) to see what is happening.    

[ArthurDent]

Thank you all for your advice! Sadly, I haven't been able to get it working so far. I do appreciate the effort though!! Perhaps the log can shed some light on this matter? Here's wat AE reports on my PC:

AEXPLORER PROPERTIES
Connection: COM1 (19200 baud)
PacketSize: 512
MaxRetries: 50

Write Packet 2
> [26 bytes]
> 00 02 00 0A 00 00 00 01 CF 0A E6 77 43 6C 6F 61 6E 74 6F 28
> 72 29 3C 56 08 13
< [0 bytes]
COM READ ERROR: 4 bytes expected (code 0, timeout 5625)
> [4 bytes]
> 00 00 00 01
< [0 bytes]
COM READ ERROR: 4 bytes expected (code 0, timeout 5000)
Write Packet 109
> [12 bytes]
> 00 6D 00 00 00 00 00 01 F8 44 C2 DA
< [0 bytes]
COM READ ERROR: 4 bytes expected (code 0, timeout 5625)
> [4 bytes]
> 00 00 00 01
< [0 bytes]
COM READ ERROR: 4 bytes expected (code 0, timeout 5000)

[Jupp3]

Don't know if it would be of much use, but you could get program "DreamTerm" from aminet for Amiga. It can display all serial communications that's happening (So, you can see, if any data sent by your PC actually even reaches your amiga...)

In addition, you might want to get "DMS" from Aminet, and (maybe some dms disk images while you're there). A .dms file is a "compressed disk image" and most of them should fit 720k PC formatted floppy (while ADF's do not)

You could first copy DMS to Amiga, then copy a DMS disk image to amiga, and enter "dms write file.dms", insert empty disk and hit "enter"

Oh, maybe it's also worth mentioning, that sometimes dms contains only half a disk. In that case, you obviously need "both halves" to write a fully working disk :-)

[ArthurDent]

I finally got it working!!

Sorry for my late reply though. Somehow, as I grow older time seems to become a sparse commodity. :-) I haven't been able to fiddle around with AE up until this evening. EdKing's comment got me wondering if my null-modem cable was the right one. After following all the excellent advice, Jupp3's suggestion proved that data never reached my Amiga.

I've bought a new cable (had a hard time finding one!) and after powering up everything works as a charm.. Finally I can enjoy some oldskool Amiga demo's 8-)

Thanks for the advice all!  

[NJ_72]

nice ! you can now try to increase the transferspeed - most amigas are doing fine up to 56000 baud, but if you're lucky even 115200 should work

happy transfering :-D