.ADF to floppy for A1000

[lopanas]

Hi,
I recently got my hands on an Amiga 1000 with lots of software , 1081 monitor and extra diskdrive. I've also found a copy of DOS2DOS so it's no problem transferring files on floppies to/from PC. But I also want to download games from the internet and use them with the real computer. And all programs that write ADF files is only for AmigaOS 2.0 and upwards. Is there any program compatible with the AmigaOS 1.3 that can write ADF to floppy?

[Thomas]

http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/tsgui

Bye,
Thomas

[WOWZER]

I use Amiga Explorer. Works great. You can buy it by itself or it comes with one of the Amiga Forever packages.

[InTheSand]

Hi,

The DevBlocks tools work well on OS versions 1.2, 1.3, 2.x and 3.x.

You might also want to consider an alternative to DOS2DOS as it's possible, for instance, to mount PC disks natively and use long file names, etc, even on an A1000 provided you have enough RAM. Take a look at FAT95 for more details. If you junk some unnecessary stuff on a copy of a Workbench disk, you should be able to create a startup floppy with PC read/write functionality.

 - Ali

[lopanas]

Sorry if this is a stupid question but how do I make fat95 come on and work on a Workbench 1.3 diskette?

[Thomas]

Copy fat95 to L, mfm.device to Devs and add an entry to Devs:Mountlist according to the fa95 manual.

If you don't own a legal copy of Workbench 2.1 or above or of CrossDOS, you don't have mfm.device and cannot use Fat95.

Better get MessyDOS. It comes with everything you need. Copy MessyFileSystem to L, messydisk.device to Devs and add the contents of Mountlist to Devs:Mountlist. Then add mount msh: to S:StartupII.

Bye,
Thomas

[lopanas]

Okej, I've put all the folders where said and edited StartupII and Mountlist. But everytime I try to edit the Mountlist the enterkey and cutandpaste stops working, exporting it to PC and editing it on the PC and then importing back to the amiga doesn't neither. Why? It's probably Because of this it doesn't work, because all files are in their position and msh: mounts correctly.

[Thomas]

But everytime I try to edit the Mountlist the enterkey and cutandpaste stops working,

What does that mean ? Since when had Kick 1.3 cut & paste ? And why does it stop working ? Which kind of editor do you use ?

exporting it to PC and editing it on the PC and then importing back to the amiga doesn't neither.

That's because Windows uses different newline characters. If you load the file into Notepad (aka Editor), you'll see that the text does not have any line breaks at all. If you load it into Wordpad or Word, the text is shown correctly, but when you save the changes, it uses the wrong newline characters. If you could edit the file in Linux or with an editor which allows to specify linefeed as newline character, then it would work.

Anyhow, instead of editing devs:mountlist, you can copy the messydos mountlist as devs:msh-mountlist and then use the following command:

mount msh: from devs:msh-mountlist

Bye,
Thomas

[lopanas]

Thanks alot, got everything working now when editing StartupII.Are on my way creating new disks. Sorry If I'm annoying but it's my first amiga and we all have to start somewhere. Thanks again.