Ways to transfer ADF to actual floppies?

[Bigbronc]

Not sure how to PM

[som99]

Not sure how to PM

I have send you a PM about how to obtain them

[tone007]

He can buy the amiga explorer and transfer files trough null cable also

But the easiet way is what I wrote above, just boot your Amiga harddrive in UAE and put TSGUI on it and the adf files you want then just run TSGUI on your real amiga and put the ADF files to disks

Easy as pie!

Accessing an old SCSI drive in UAE on a modern PC isn't exactly easy, especially if you don't have a SCSI card for your PC lying around (I'd bet most people don't.)

As for Amiga Explorer, why pay for something you can do for free?  Though Amiga Explorer would probably be alot simpler for most than getting an old SCSI drive running in a PC, or transferring files with ZModem.

[som99]

Accessing an old SCSI drive in UAE on a modern PC isn't exactly easy, especially if you don't have a SCSI card for your PC lying around (I'd bet most people don't.)

As for Amiga Explorer, why pay for something you can do for free?  Though Amiga Explorer would probably be alot simpler for most than getting an old SCSI drive running in a PC, or transferring files with ZModem.

First off he have not stated wheter he has a SCSI or IDE controller.
Also most people I know has SCSI controller lying around at home.

Secondly Amiga Explorer is easy for everyone to use and it's quite cheep.

[desiv]

OK, I can tell you for sure that ADF Sender Terminal ( http://adfsender.stoeggl.com/ ) running under WINE in Linux works for transferring floppies to the Amiga who was running transwarp.

I just installed it (I chose the ZIP package, unzipped and ran the installer with WINE), chose COM1 19,200.

I told the Amiga : transwarp -w ser: -b 19200

I hit enter.  Went to the PC, selected the image of Firepower I DLd.  And it started transferring.

Several  ...  several ... several minutes later (It is serial! :-), it was done.  Rebooted, and Firepower started...

The fastest I was able to transfer on my Amiga 500 safely was 19,200.  (The laptop I was using had this REALLY old USB-serial port adapter.  I think you're supposed to be able to get to 38,400 with a standard A500.
I'll have to see how fast I can transfer to the A1200....

desiv

[amigaksi]

OK, I can tell you for sure that ADF Sender Terminal ( http://adfsender.stoeggl.com/ ) running under WINE in Linux works for transferring floppies to the Amiga who was running transwarp.

I just installed it (I chose the ZIP package, unzipped and ran the installer with WINE), chose COM1 19,200.

I told the Amiga : transwarp -w ser: -b 19200

I hit enter.  Went to the PC, selected the image of Firepower I DLd.  And it started transferring.

Several  ...  several ... several minutes later (It is serial! :-), it was done.  Rebooted, and Firepower started...

The fastest I was able to transfer on my Amiga 500 safely was 19,200.  (The laptop I was using had this REALLY old USB-serial port adapter.  I think you're supposed to be able to get to 38,400 with a standard A500.
I'll have to see how fast I can transfer to the A1200....

desiv

That's like 13X slower than reading from a floppy drive which is 250kbits/second.  Still much faster than hand entering the hex codes.

Is that transwarp a small program that doesn't rely on a bunch of libraries and where is it storing the ADF?  I tried Access terminal software once to transfer ADFs to Amiga using Windows Terminal program, but the software was huge that a 1MB A500 didn't have enough RAM disk space to read in the ADF.  It would be useful if it can copy directly to physical disk or run within a few kilobytes (including all libraries) so it doesn't hog up much RAM.

[desiv]

Is that transwarp a small program that doesn't rely on a bunch of libraries and where is it storing the ADF?

Yeah, it's pretty tiny.  It uses the standard serial device, but you can also use the baudbandit device for supposed faster speeds.

It will let you set the baud rate to as fast as the Amiga can handle.

It would be useful if it can copy directly to physical disk.

That's exactly what it does.  It writes to floppy directly.

desiv

[runequester]

OK, I can tell you for sure that ADF Sender Terminal ( http://adfsender.stoeggl.com/ ) running under WINE in Linux works for transferring floppies to the Amiga who was running transwarp.

I just installed it (I chose the ZIP package, unzipped and ran the installer with WINE), chose COM1 19,200.

I told the Amiga : transwarp -w ser: -b 19200

I hit enter.  Went to the PC, selected the image of Firepower I DLd.  And it started transferring.

Several  ...  several ... several minutes later (It is serial! :-), it was done.  Rebooted, and Firepower started...

The fastest I was able to transfer on my Amiga 500 safely was 19,200.  (The laptop I was using had this REALLY old USB-serial port adapter.  I think you're supposed to be able to get to 38,400 with a standard A500.
I'll have to see how fast I can transfer to the A1200....

desiv

sweet. THat may be the solution then. Propably don't have the patience to do it for Beneath a Steel sky or something but for games that are only one or two disks I guess it'll work.

[runequester]

aaand... as a bonus, my desktop doesn't have a serial port as it turns out. Argh

[arnljot]

I bought a ceap usb2serial cable

[lauri.lotvonen]

aaand... as a bonus, my desktop doesn't have a serial port as it turns out. Argh

I think that you have a free USB port, do you ? Then these would sort out the serial port probs you have :
http://www.dealextreme.com/search.dx/search.usb%20serial

[gertsy]

Sorry, not clear if your A2000 has scsi as a scsi HD was mentioned?  If so pop in a scsi cdrom (epay) and burn yourself an ISO Mode2 XA CDROM full of ADFs.  Don't forget to copy the ADF2DISK tool.

TransADF.  I remember that. So slow and so painful. They were dark times..