Workbench .ADF files

[gurthuk]

Happy Christmas gents!

I've been playing with MacUAE ever since finding my A1200 while moving house.

Looking at the photos on people Workbench's I really would like to emulate the hi-res / colour depth on my Mac. I miss Deluxe Paint and the odd game or two!

The problem is I need to set up a harddisk file on my Mac and install Workbench, but I don't know how to get the .adf files of my systems disk across to my Mac - no foppy drive on Mac, no USB on Amiga. I need to transfer install HD, Workbenchm, extras, storge, local, etc.

Suggestions on a postcatd please?

[nahoo7]

Gday I have just done the same thing but on a pc.I downloaded blitzer.lha which will read and write adf files to the hd on the amiga.
Then I connected the computers via the parallel ports and used pc2amiga to transfer the adf files to the pc I dont know if it will work on the mac but someone might know of a program that works the same way between the amiga and the mac hope that helps.

[blobrana]

Hum,
i`m not sure but you could copy the files over via a PC0: formatted floppy.
And copy them to folder (or a virtual HDF  disk).

Boot from the folder.

And not bother with Adf at all.

[Piru]

i`m not sure but you could copy the files over via a PC0: formatted floppy.

Amazing. How does that work when the mac has no floppy drive?

[Dingo_aus]

Do macs have serial ports? If so, a null-modem cable might be your best bet

[nahoo7]

you can use either parallel or serial ports I used parallel port as the pc doesnt have a 25 pin serial connection but I did use a modem cable as pc2amiga uses either port you just tick which one in config.

[Dr_Righteous]

Simplest solution... Buy a USB FDD for the Mac. A Laplink cable might be a bit of a configuration nightmare with a Mac, I'm not even sure the software exists for it.

OT: My question is, what version of MacOS is this? If it's OSX, you might do better to use UAE instead of MacUAE... Last I knew, MacUAE didn't get many updates.

[gurthuk]

geting there slowly lads - MaxUAE (sorry I called it MacUAE) dosn't seem to be updated near as much as the Windows versions. For example it doesn't support AGA yet.

My eMac doesn't have any serial or par. ports, the USB floppy idea is a go'er but it's not life or death. I can live without it.

Mangaed to find workbench.adf and extras.adf on via google, no copyright infringed as I have the disk's and kickstart ROM's already. Could do with the Dev's .adf though as I only have a PAL and NSTC screen mode option available to me in Workbench.

Managed to get Workbench 3.1 running, hmmm not quite as good as I remember - I know it's a 80's-90's OS but I was hoping for more. Nevermind, I can still play the odd game.

I have OS X (10.4.3 last time I looked!), is UAE available in a OSX flavour straight from http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~uae/ ?

[Piru]

E-UAE for MacOS X is much newer, but lacks in UI. Well, if you can live with it:

http://www.rcdrummond.net/uae/

[gurthuk]

ah-ha I seemed to have found this site before judging by the colour of the links within...

Little or no documentation. Something I need to sit down and work out myself I think.

Thanks.

[Doobrey]

Piru wrote:
E-UAE for MacOS X is much newer, but lacks in UI.

 There's a nice GUI frontend for OSX/E-UAE ,Hi-Toro

If only some genius could come up with a PPC JIT for E-UAE, then I could finally chuck this PC out the window. (once I moved the car outta the way!)

[Invisix]

Why not just purchase Amiga Forever? :-)

It includes, WB 3.1 ADF files, and much more.