Downloading amiga games

[melott]

I guess it depends on if the A500 has a harddrive.
My A500 had a HD and I could do an upload to the
Amiga at the max rate of the serial port (33k I think).

Without a HD I guess the uploading to floppy would be
slow. But if its the only option available then it is
exceptable.

[AmigaEd]

It's true you can use a nullmodem cable, but that only works if you have some kind of terminal software on your amiga already. If you don't, how are you going to transfer it?

Additional terminal software is not required to intially get transwarp on to your Amiga system.

As stated above, the Transwarp application can be sent from your IBM PC and copied to disk or ram disk as follows...
1.) Set serial port prefs on amiga to match those on IBM PC. (it might be best to start at 19200 baud. You can experiment with faster speeds later.)

2.) Run ADF Sender Terminal program on IBM PC

3.) Now at cli issue the following... copy SER: RAM:Transwarp

4.) On the IBM PC select the Transwarp file and send.

Once transwarp has been transferred to the amiga, you can then use it to transfer ADF files from the IBM PC to 880K disks on the Amiga or the other way around. From the floppy to an ADF image file on the IBM PC.


-AmigaEd

[awe4k]

Well,

Do you want to do it in the elegant way? Get yourself a Catweasel floppy controller. With it, you'll do exactly what you intend to: you'll download an ADF, you'll transfer it to a floppy, and you'll boot that floppy on the Amiga.

The problem: price.

Another solution is something in the sort of PC2AMIGA software package, that allows you to access PC drives from the Amiga as if those were the Amiga's own (disk sharing), over a serial or a parallel cable. Then, once the ADF has been transfered to the Amiga you'll have to source some software to write the file into a floppy. If you have a bare A500, with no hard disk, then this solution can be very inconvenient.

[icbrkr]

You can also use a Laplink cable and PC2AM found on Aminet.  This way is considerably quicker than a nullmodem cable.  Most ADFs only took a minute or so to transfer across, plus you can mount all your PC's disks in Workbench.

[Darklight]

I would recommend Amiga Explorer for this sort of thing.  Although it's not free, it's by far the easiest software for pc - amiga transfer that I've used.  I was putting a HD in my A600 a while ago and wanted to put it on there, but with only 1 mb ram (it's got 2mb now  :-P) I couldn't transfer it to ram, so instead of that, I just ignored AExplorer's instructions and transferred it directly to the hard drive.  Works a treat, and I'm sure it would work if you changed RAM: in the transfer command to DF0: and worked from there.  
Plus, it's great because it's basically one-click adf writing.  Just drag the adf onto the empty disk icon in AExplorer, and you're done.

[LP]

hehe.. you could also just get the necesary parts to connect the 500 to the net.. that way you'd skip the PC step

But I guess it's not your intentions to make it go on the net...

Just thought I'd suggest it...

[Tomas]

Rich_Pags wrote:
hello this is my first post

I was wondering if i can download amiga games and put them onto floppy disk and run the game on my Amiga 500

is this possible?

if anyone can help me i will be very greatful

thanks

I assume you have kickstart/workbench 1.2/1.3? If so, then you have to transfer a program like messydos or similar over to your a500 using a serial cable. This program will enable your amiga to read pc formatted floppies, so you can just put the adf files on a pc floppy and run a small program om the a500 to write them onto a disk.

If you have kickstart 2.x with wb2.1, then you already have crossdos included with your worbench that enables your amiga to read dos format floppies.

[Tomas]

adz wrote:

melott wrote:
He can transfer the file between the PC and the Amiga
using a Null Modem. Its really fairly easy.
Just run a Dos Term prg. on the PC and a Term prg. on
the Amiga. I used JR Com on my A500 and TelTerm on the PC.
Worked great. Should still be able to buy a Null Modem
at Radio Shack for just a few bucks ($5 to $10).

Far too slow if you ask me. Might as well go with emulation altogether.

Well, all he needs to do is transfer a program that makes the a500 read dos floppies.. once that program is transferred, then he can just put the adf files on a standard 720k floppy..

This is what i have done myself... and i have now probably transferred like 100 demos/games to my good old a500

[TjLaZer]

You can get real hardcore and get an Amiga upgraded and on your home LAN, then you can just transfer the ADF from the PC or Internet to the Amiga's RAM disk and then write it to a real disk!

All you really need is a Amiga with a 020 or better with some Fast RAM, OS 2+ (3.x recommended), Hard Drive and a Ethernet card.  An Amiga A600 or better yet A1200 would do just fine since you can get a very cheap PCMCIA Ethernet card for it!