Getting software into amigaland

[blanning]

What's the best way to get a disk image on a PC into an amiga?  I'm thinking maybe the catweasel?  Or is there PC software that can write to amiga 880k disks?  or maybe a laplink style serial connection?

Eventually I'll have a network connection and probably usb support, but for now, it's a ship in a bottle.

brian

[amigakit]

If you have an A1200 or A600, then the EasyADF CF Transfer Kit is the best way.

You could use a Serial Transfer Cable for big box Amigas.

[amigadave]

I use AmigaKit's EasyADF CF Transfer Kit and it is a breeze to use.  Best item I have bought for transferring data between the PC and Amiga ever.  I highly recommend it and AmigaKit!

[blanning]

I have two 2000s at the moment that I picked up last night.  I still need a monitor also.  As soon as I digest those systems, I'll be buying a new 1200 from you guys.  The serial cable looks like a good alternative until I get properly setup.

brian

[RRunner]

If you have an HD floppy on the Amiga you can copy the disk image over using CrossDOS.

If you are restricted to a low density Amiga floppy drive then run WinUAE on the PC and use LHA to save the disk image out into two parts that will fit on a low density PC floppy. Use CrossDOS on the Amiga to read the floppy and LHA to put the two pieces back together.

[blanning]

They're more or less stock 2000s.  I'm thinking they didn't have high density drives, right?

brian

[RRunner]

blanning wrote:
They're more or less stock 2000s.  I'm thinking they didn't have high density drives, right?

brian

Yea, you are probably right there!

[Colani1200]

You don't need a high density drive in order to use CrossDOS, it works fine with 720k formatted DD disks.

[Hodgkinson]

Or, you could get the A2000's networked, then just pull the image from the PC onto the A2000 and write it straight to floppy disks or extract it to a HDD  :-D

I do the same kinda thing with my A1200.

[blanning]

Hodgkinson wrote:
Or, you could get the A2000's networked, then just pull the image from the PC onto the A2000 and write it straight to floppy disks or extract it to a HDD  :-D

I do the same kinda thing with my A1200.

Thats the plan, but i'm not there yet.  

brian

[Hodgkinson]

;-)