How to get files to an amiga

[chertel]

What ways are there to get files from a PC to an Amiga 2000?

[Linchpin]

What sort of amiga 2000 ?

CD rom ?
FDD ?
Basic A2000?
Ethernet?
UAE HDD transfer?

There are a few ways...

[Crisisdog]

With the proper drivers loaded, all Amigas with a floppy drive should be able to read 720k MS-DOS diskettes.  If you're running OS 2.1 or higher, there should be a PC0 device that can be double clicked in the "Storage\DosDrivers" directory to activate this.

If you have additonal accessories installed on the Amiga, such as a CD-ROM, ZIP disk, or HD 1.44 floppy drive, then these formats can also be recognized, once again with proper drivers.

 :-D

[BenShep]

Install a scsi cdrom. This is probably the best way of doing things other than having a network card.

You'll probably need to get the driver to the amiga along with LHA and a few other utilities if you're not fully setup.  

If you are running kickstart 2.1 you can mount 720Kb dos (fat) diskettes by using the PC0: device in the dos drivers drawer.  This is probably the best way of getting started.

Another option is to get amiga explorer from amiga forever (transfers files over a null modem serial link).

 

[Thomas]

- Ethernet / Samba
- Ethernet / FTP
- USB sticks / flashcard readers
- CD-R/RW
- ZIP disks
- floppy disks
- HDD swapping
- serial cable with AmigaExplorer
- serial cable with terminal programs
- parallel cable with appropiate software
- sending files by e-mail to your mailbox and retrieving them with the Amiga
- ...

Bye,
Thomas

[Managarm]

I've found that transfering through the PCMCIA port works really well. There's one on EBay now.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3543&item=8176028592&rd=1

There's also one that uses the serial port.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3544&item=8177988573&rd=1

Although I believe that the serial port can be quite slow.

[chertel]

It is an Amiga 2000 HD,  no CD, no NIC, only FD
Workbench 1.3
No Kickstart rom for UAE, or else I would try that.

[DethKnight]

big fan of NComm and laplinks myself
last xfer took just under 3 minutes for 900k ADF

[Noster]

Hi,

with an old Amiga with Kickstart 1.3 you cannot use such nice tools as PC2Amiga with a LapLink cable, but you can use a serial connection to transfer files between these computers.
If you want to write ADF-files to Amiga disks, you can use TransWarp or TransDisk on the Amiga and ADFSender at the (Windows-)PC.

If you own an old PC (486), you can use TWINExpress for a 115200 baud connection between a standard Amiga and a PC. This tool is also usefull between two Amigas, I have reached upto 190000 baud between two unenhanced A1000's !!

http://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/aminet/aminet/comm/term/twin_11a.lha

To get the initial file (the transfertool) to your Amiga, you could start a simple terminal program on your PC and copy the file to the serial port connected to your Amiga and open a shell on the Amiga and type something like:

copy SER: to RAM:twin.lha

This way the file is copied to the Amigas RAM-disk.

Noster

[chertel]

Noster wrote:

To get the initial file (the transfertool) to your Amiga, you could start a simple terminal program on your PC and copy the file to the serial port connected to your Amiga and open a shell on the Amiga and type something like:

copy SER: to RAM:twin.lha

This way the file is copied to the Amigas RAM-disk.

Noster

Has anyone tried this type of connection?

[Noster]

Hi,

@chertel

> Has anyone tried this type of connection?

I have :-D

But I've used two Amigas (A3000T WB 3.9, A500 WB 1.2), the first one (server) with:

copy twin.lha to SER:

and the second (client) with:

copy SER: to RAM:twin.lha

It should also work with a PC as sender. Take care that you use identical settings for the serial port on both machines.

Noster

[DethKnight]

I tried just now, only got connection timeouts

somehow I think there's missing details

and a write fault error writing to com1 on the PC

to avoid funky errors I say hyperterm to ncomm

[Noster]

Hi,

@DethKnight

Have you the same settings for the serial port on both machines ?
Remember that you could use 19200 baud as maximum for the standard SER: of an Amiga.

Noster

[DethKnight]

re:  19200 baud as maximum

I seem to get what appears to be 57600 using NComm
 no funky errors
8-n-1 ZModemCRC


serial.device 5412 bytes

[Noster]

Hi,

> I seem to get what appears to be 57600 using NComm
> no funky errors

with the standard serial.device ? Or are you using something like baudbandit.device with NComm ?

Noster