Amiga Floppies

Can linux read and edit Amiga floppies I heard it can and being linux im inclined to beleave it. if so it may become extremely usefull around here.

I've never heard of such.

I don't believe this is true.

If Linux could read amiga floppies, then it wouldn't have to be done through hardware, like flipper.          (I think the name is)

I wished there could be a simple software solution though, because I have some nice amiga apps on floppies.

Don't know what I'm gonna do with them.

[ShadesOfGrey]

Mountain_Myst is correct.  You would need a Catweasel ISA or Catweasel Mk3 Flipper floppy drive controller in order to read an Amiga formatted floppy under Linux.  You can learn more at individual Computers and Catweasel Advanced Floppy Controller.

[clark]

Now there is a program under DOS, that can read miggy floppies, but it requires 2 floppy drives (quite a rarity these days), and is terribly slow, and unreliable.  I can't remember the exact name of the program, now.

Clark

Disk2FDI is the prog name.

[Targhan]

If you can acquire an external Amiga floppy drive, and follow some
instructions from AmigaMOS.com... Something could be built :-)

Linux can, however, read Amiga formatted HDD's using the AFFS switch.
Though, you may have to let the package-thingy build it for you before
the switch is available.

Has anybody ever figured out how to move files from pc to amig and vis versa.

[Ilwrath]

Has anybody ever figured out how to move files from pc to amig and vis versa.

Huh?

There's many ways...  FTP, NFS, Samba are all ethernet/network solutions, Null Modem connect, Parallel port connect, reading/writing PC disks on Amiga (CrossDOS), CD Roms (ISO, RockRidge, or even Joliet I believe a few Amiga progs support), Zip Disks (PC formatted), San Disk (If you have USB), need I go on?  

What are you trying to do?

Amiga 500 <-> PC

How do I do this without the 500 on the net. Say I downloaded a program on the internet for the 500 what is the best way to move it from my pc to the 500.

[Ilwrath]

Depends on if you're talking about a stock A500, or at least some expansions.  I had thought you were dealing with a more expanded Amiga.  (my bad)

The options on a stock A500 (AmigaOS1.3/1MB RAM) 1 floppy drive, are rather limited.  Small files can be put on a 720kB PC floppy and read/write on the Amiga with CrossDOS (provided you can find a copy of the old 1.3 CrossDOS diskette) Large files... well, what are you going to do with a large file on an Amiga with an 880kB floppy and 1MB RAM, anyhow?

If you tossed some extra RAM, AmigaOS 2 or greater, and a SCSI controller into the Amiga side, though, a lot more possibilities open up...  

[Marky_D_Sahd]

Oops!  I thought this thread was about Viagra for computers!

But, now that I'm here... What version OS you running??  I believe CrossDOS came will all after 3.0 (right?)
Other than that or networking, I can't think of a way, though others probably know of several.