A600

[countzero]

lha is a file compression tool for the amiga. think of it like zip or rar for the amiga. you can get lha here. just get the file file lha_68k from that archive and rename it to lha.

Creating a lha archive at windows can be tricky. try this :
you have the adf2disk.lha downloaded from aminet right ? make a copy of it. open that archive with your favorite windows archive tool. put your adf inside. remove the adf2diskrelated files. now you have a lha file containing your adf.

[Tomas]

mikerus wrote:
Thanks Countzero this seems like what I'm after. I've formatted my floppy disk and i've downloaded adf2disk.lha from aminet. What do you mean when you say 'get lha'? Is this a windows program for compressing? If I search aminet for lha i just get lots of files with extension .lha. Or do I need a .lha file for each .adf file? Sorry about this but I really don't know what i'm talking about! Thanks again for all your help guys.

http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/software/amiga/compression/lhA_e138.run
lha is basically the zip/rar format of the amiga world..
I believe winrar and winace supports lha as well.

[mikerus]

Right I think I'm getting there. I have one .lha file containing adf2disk and a an .adf file of my game. Do I need to archive lha.lha into this file as well? You're also going to have to explain to me what to do with all of these files on my amiga in simpler terms than before. Really sorry but I'm a bit thick as you may have already worked out. Lol! Thanks so much for all your help. I'm really excited about playing some of the old games I've lost the disks for. Cheers.

[countzero]

no, you need to keep lha as executable, so you can run it.
As I said, copy lha to workbench:c (here workbench signifies whatever you called your system partition). then you copy the lha archive containing your adf to somewhere on your hd, and run the command "lha e your_file.lha"

[Dr_Righteous]

If you have a harddrive in your A600, you're probably way better off transferring files via parallel null modem than by floppy. And the added bonus of using Amiga internet software over internet connection sharing.