Mac OS X to amiga

[highland]

How do I get a disk image for the amiga on a floppy on macos X ??

[Oliver]

I'm assuming you have an Amiga, and want to transfer a disk image from it, via a floppy disk, onto your Mac.  Is that right?

What Amiga and OS do you have?  If you have anything since Workbench 2.1, you will have CrossDos built in.  You may have to activate it though.  If that is the case, you can drag a file named PC0 from your Storage/DosDrivers drawer into your Devs/DosDrivers drawer, and reboot.

You should then format a 720k dos disk, and transfer away.  You may need to use lha or similar archiving tool.

Good luck.

[highland]

No I got legal adf files on my MAcosX computer and want to play them on my real amiga 500 wich has Kickstart 2 and WB 3.1

[motorollin]

Oliver's answer is still correct. You need to mount PC0 on your Amiga so it can read DOS floppies, which can also be read/written on your Mac. Format a DOS disk on a PC, put it in your Mac, copy the ADF file on to it along with transdisk from Aminet, put the floppy in your Amiga, and use transdisk to write the ADF to a disk.

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moto

[Oliver]

Oh, didn't know you could run Workbench 3.1 with Kickstart 2.  Do you soft kick?

Do you have a hard drive for the 500?  At least having multiple floppy drives may be helpful.  Otherwise, I'm not sure how you could juggle getting the .adf transferred to a real 880k amiga disk.

[Oliver]

I think the Mac can quite happily format the Dos disk.

[Oliver]

Also, do you know what utilities to use for making the .adf into a real Amiga disk?

[motorollin]

I don't know whether a disk formatted in DOS format on a Mac would work on an Amiga. I haven't got a floppy drive on my Mac to try it :-) Worth a go though. If it doesn't work just format it on a PC.

ADF2Disk can be used to write the ADF back to a real Amiga floppy (sorry not transdisk as I said earlier).

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moto

[highland]

A500+ with an A590 200MB scsi HD and 2,5MB xtra ram. pretty nice setup
I didn't install the WB on the AMiga so I don't know how it boots 3.1

Oliver wrote:
Oh, didn't know you could run Workbench 3.1 with Kickstart 2.  Do you soft kick?

Do you have a hard drive for the 500?  At least having multiple floppy drives may be helpful.  Otherwise, I'm not sure how you could juggle getting the .adf transferred to a real 880k amiga disk.

[highland]

Ok I can get the floppy to load but the files don't show up on the miggy. How do I handle that.

[Oliver]

You probably just need to choose to show all files.  Your Workbench is probably only showing any valid icons which it can see on the disk (of which there are presumably none at this time).

[motorollin]

And make sure you are opening PC0 not DF0 :-)

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moto

[highland]

Yeah Ok that worked , now where can i find a program to extract LHA,It's all so long ago

[Oliver]

highland wrote:
Yeah Ok that worked , now where can i find a program to extract LHA,It's all so long ago

Try Aminet.  The one I use is just called Lha, and it's a command line program.  Hope that's OK.  Otherwise, you can also download WizArc, a gui for Lha, although it's an Lha archive.  Ha.

edit- I think you will need the command line Lha program to use with WizArc.  I haven't installed it on my Amiga before.

[motorollin]

Go to Aminet and search for lha.run

Then copy this over to your Amiga and run it. It will self extract the lha executable. Copy this to C:.

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moto