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Offline XanaaTopic starter

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Aminet files
« on: April 17, 2008, 01:25:13 PM »
Hi,
I'm not new  to Amiga computers (had one 500 in 1989 on a relearning curve) but need help on setting up Files from Aminet after I have un-ziped them  I can see the Icons but not sure where to go from there.
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Re: Aminet files
« Reply #1 on: April 17, 2008, 02:31:25 PM »
Hi Xanaa,

Not sure what you mean, if you can see the icons then you should be able to run whatever it is by double clicking the icon?
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Re: Aminet files
« Reply #2 on: April 17, 2008, 07:41:09 PM »
Hi Xanaa,

What's your setup? Are you on a Windows machine using an emulator such as WinUAE? Are you talking about .ADF files? If so, then from WinUAE, you can simply load those (Amiga Disk Format) files as floppies by pressing F12 and going to the floppy drive menu.

Don't know if this helps since I don't know what you're looking at.

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Re: Aminet files
« Reply #3 on: April 17, 2008, 08:00:21 PM »
Based on previous posts from Xanaa's profile, I'd say that this user is probably on an old A2000 with the Kickstart 3.1 upgrade and a GVP hard-drive controller.
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Re: Aminet files
« Reply #4 on: April 17, 2008, 11:37:04 PM »
Hi,
My system is a 2000 with 3.1 installed,Progressive Peripherals 68040-33Mhz accelerator , 32 megs of ram, flicker fixer card,GVP Impact A2000-HC+8 , and a CD Rom drive.
I down load my Aminet files on a PC :cry: and use a LHA unzip program and burn extracted files to a CD , then I transfer files to my Amiga, I can see all the files I transfered and some Icons that look like a hammer type of picture. .What do I do next to run these files or how to set them up, for example Moria game?
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Re: Aminet files
« Reply #5 on: April 18, 2008, 02:21:25 AM »
Doing it that way will probably harm some of the archive's attributes. Why not copy the lha files to the amiga and extract them on there?
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Re: Aminet files
« Reply #6 on: April 18, 2008, 03:14:29 AM »
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Doing it that way will probably harm some of the archive's attributes. Why not copy the lha files to the amiga and extract them on there?


I don't know about harming the archive's files or attributes, but I would agree that it might be better to just copy the .lha archived files to your A2000 and extract them there.

There should be a "readme" file with most archived files that tells you how to install them and more about the program or game.  Some have installer scripts that can be run by double clicking an icon.

We need more info to help you with specifics, but you will probably figure it out from what has already been written.

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Offline scuzzb494

Re: Aminet files
« Reply #7 on: April 22, 2008, 11:49:46 PM »
Hi

If you simply select show 'only icons ' from the Window drop down menu and not show ' all files ' then only the actual program execution icons will be visible... and other drawers. Its probably an icon that is quite distinctive. If you click a hammerhead or ' tool ' this generally has no '.info ' associated icon... your C drawer in Workbench is full of these. They are tools. If you click you probably get a message ' Execute a File ' then an error. These are tools used in conjunction with execute scripts from the icons with the .info icon. You get more information about icons from the drop down menu requesting this.

Aminet is full of wonderful tools, which on their own will do very little.

Try and install DOpus so you can interrogate files... You also need CrossDOS and LHA set up and you can simply take your CD files from the PC and read and unarchive on the Amiga. LHA is a tool that resides in C also.

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