WinUAE <-> A500 via transdisk & null modem?

[renoncour]

So I dug up the old A500, and I've been able to transfer ADF images using ADF Sender Terminal and transdisk. It's a beautiful thing.

HOWEVER, I was wondering if it's possible to do an "Amiga-to-Amiga" transfer between WinUAE and the real thing, simply using transdisk. I have WB1.3 and transdisk on each end, and I'm trying to send from one and receive on the other, like so:

WUAE: transdisk >ser: -d trackdisk 1
A500: transdisk -w ser: -d trackdisk 1

When I do this, WinUAE acts like it's sending the tracks, but the A500 sits at 0, waiting to receive a track. I suppose it's possible that WinUAE is doing something strange with the serial port, but I haven't explored this possibility yet.

So.. does anyone know if it's even /possible/ for transdisk to work this way? I just want to make a copy of a disk, using the serial port with a null modem cable to transfer.

And just in case you're wondering.. I have some .IPF images for WinUAE and I'm looking for a method to get them onto REAL Amiga disks..

[motorollin]

I don't know if you can do that, but it would appear that the overall question is "how do I get an IPF image on to an Amiga?", right?

I assume IPF is an image format for WinUAE. Why don't you set the IPF image as DF0:, a blank ADF as DF1:, and then do a diskcopy from DF0: to DF1:. That way you will end up with an ADF with the contents of the IPF. Then copy that over the serial cable and use transdisk to write it to floppy.

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moto

[renoncour]

Argh, I can't believe I didn't already think of that. Thanks for the idea.

It does add an extra step, though. Anyone else?

[InTheSand]

Is the ADF format capable of storing the custom disk format information that might be present in an IPF?

Might have to try this later to see what happens!

 - Ali

[orange]

if it was there wouldn't be .ipf
AFAIK caps or sps team never did release program for writing .ipf to diskettes, can't remember the reason maybe piracy, their site probably explains it..
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