transfering amiga game file from net to amiga

[hookuk]

Hi, i have just bought my self an Amiga 600 for nostalger reasons and have found a web site with legal game downloads on but do not know how to get them so my amiga will read the disk.

can anyone help me?

[Andeda]

there is many ways to do it, just search in this forum and you will get some usefull information in how to do it.
keywords can be Amiga explorer and whdload.

[lempkee]

get os3.9 for your a1200 and install it and its internet tools , connect to the internet and download the files and extract the adf's to disk with adf2disk or whatever...easy peasy

[hookuk]

I've got an A600 not 1200 can i still get it on the internet?

[foleyjo]

What I did before I got CDs and networking on my Amiga is download the ADF's  put them in a zip file and then used a split package to split the zip file into seperate files small enough to fit on 720kb disks, then I used cross dos to read the disks on the amiga put them on the harddrive and join them into the zip.
Unzipped it then used ADF2Disk to convert the ADFs back to Amiga Floppy!

Its a long process but it was worth it in the end.
A CD drive made things easier and networking made it even easier. If you dont want to upgrade your A600 though Id say this is the best method for you

[coldfish]

Similar to foleyjo, I used to:

Get the adf of the net with my PC, copy those each one to a PC floppy (1.4Mb), on the Amiga side I was lucky enough to have a High Density external floppy drive and cross-dos (the Amiga's PC floppy reading software).

So now I have the adf file on the Amiga's harddrive, I used ADF2Disk to convert the image back onto a real Amiga floppy.

To do all this you need:

-An Amiga with a harddrive!
-A high density floppy drive
-Some old blank Amigha disks
-Patience.

Nowdays, I just use WinUAE, its a lot easier.

But if your determined, You might be able to get those adfs onto your A600 using a PCMCIA - Compact Flash adapter in the A600 slot?  

Write adf's to the CF card on PC, insert the PCMCIA-CF card into the A600 and convert the files using ADF2Disk (see Aminet).  

I dont know if this will work, I never got it to work on my A1200 but it coulve been the PCMCIA-CF adapter I had was incompatable with the Amiga, I started using WinUAE and never botherd to solve it.  
 

[hookuk]

Cheers after looking about on different sites last night this will be the quicker of the many ways for me to get the games to my basic A600, just 1 thnk bothering me:

How do i get the ADF2Disk software from my pc to my amiga? (its like what came first the chicken or the egg...)


aaargh :madashell:

[coldfish]

You should be ok, ADF2Disk comes in a LHA file that will be openable from the CF card/media.  Of course you'll need an app' to decompress the LHA archive before you can run it though! Something like Directory Opus I think?

I had a similar problem a few years ago trying to get CrossDos on my Amiga; I needed crossdos to read the PC floppy to access & install crossdos... Doh!  My local Amiga dealer wanted $AU50-60 for a copy, he lost my support.

Good luck!

[Andeda]

Im about to do it this way, i first transfer all my adf files to my Amiga harddrive using Aexplorer (this took me 2 days and 12 hours) then when i have all my adf files on my harddrive i can use adfblitzer to write my adf files to my amiga floppy. So for this you will need Adfblizer which can be found on aminet and Aexplorer which i bought from amigaforever.com and a nollmodem serial cabel to connect my amiga to my pc, and a lot time..

[InTheSand]

@hookuk:

Another way for you might be to get an old 2.5" laptop drive (less than 2Gb), and an adaptor for your PC, then use WinUAE to copy a load of ADFs to it in bulk (and install Workbench, etc).

Then, once done, you can plug the drive into your A600 and have a system ready to go to start writing the disk images out to real floppies.

As far as getting stuff on to the A600 and your chicken and egg situation goes, have a look at ADF Sender Terminal as this'll let you get basic RS232-based communication up and running between your PC and Amiga with a minimal amount of software on the Amiga side of things (Workbench on its own and/or Amiga BASIC).

 - Ali