connecting via amiPC to a 1200

[sir_inferno]

hi guys!
i bought an amiga 1200 from e-bay.
don't know the stats yet, need to open it up but anyway... I want to connect it to my network, but it ain't have a cd drive, and i don't want to get 500 floppy disks, stick sellotape to all of them  :-D  and then get every little bit of samba onto it  :-P .
But i noticed in the back of the box there was a parralel cable which i've plugged into my laptop and my 1200, and i later discovered a piece of paper saying amiPC etc. but there was no software for the pc, or the amiga for that matter. I e-mailed the guy and he said it was all lost when he moved house. I went to the amiPC website, and i e-mailed them to ask them to send me the software, but they never replied, they are probably defunct now or somthing...
I know the parrallel cable works, cause i made a direct cable connection to my computers with it, so that's ok. I looked on the internet for the software, but i couldn't find it. This is the search for it on google, n.b. the -engine is there cause it kept on coming up with the emulators:google search for it.

I tried using windows "direct cable connection" but it didn't do anything  :-( but that's probably cause the amiga wasn't expecting anything?!?!

The laptop runs windows ME, but that shouldn't matter, cause if  i have to , i can connect it up to another computer running both XP, and '98. The miag runs kickstart 39.106, and workbench version 40.42            . Please don't make me go through 500 floppied just to get samba on  :-P

teh win.

thanks

[pjhutch]

Try Amiga Explorer from Cloanto:

http://www.amigaforever.com/amigaexplorer.html

You don`t even need s/w on Amiga side for it to work. The PC stuff will do it for you!

or even AmiTrans:
http://www.ntware.com/workstation/terminal.html

[sir_inferno]

thanks, but isn't that just for serial rather than parrallel?

[sir_inferno]

i stand corrected :-D

[sir_inferno]

although for amiga explorer, you have to pay  :-x  so AmiTrans it is :>

[Ryu]

try

ftp://de.aminet.net/pub/aminet/comm/misc/PC2Am308.lha

:-)

[sir_inferno]

ah haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa thanks mate, cause amiTRANS didn't accept a parrallel cable, and it also was only one way, which brings me onto my next point, what about the pc part?

[Ryu]

All the software you need for the amiga and PC is in that archive...

I bought the commercial package for £10 from wierdscience which includes a parallel cable and an updated version of the software...

[sir_inferno]

oh rite, thanx

[sir_inferno]

ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, ok, i managed to run the pc stuff on my pc and it worked, but when i tried reading/running any of the stuff it just didn't happen. You know that enter parameters thing came up, and then it said something like blah blah is not an executable. Gimme some help here!  :-P i mean i'd read the readme but i don't know how to on the amiga, liek to you go into shell and type amiga notepad or somthing?

[pjhutch]

To read text files on the amiga type 'more filename' or 'multiview filename'. e.g. more readme

Also be careful when transferring binary files like executables that you use full 8 bits and when transferred that the exe protect flag is set
e.g. protect filename +e

[sir_inferno]

ah, that works now thanks

[sir_inferno]

ummmmmmmmm, i got lots of icons with different names like install, debug, readme, but they all got computer icons, and i got an icon with the hammer thing, called install. i did "more install" and it showed up the script for the isntaller, now like, how do i run it?

config and install, the two icons with the computer and the amiga say your tool cannot be opened when d-clicked, and the other two are the same icons but with drawers and they say the drawers cannot be opened :-?

[Ryu]

Hey again, I'll get the archive myself in a little while and get back to you with more of a guide on how its done....

[sir_inferno]

thanks a lot, amiga guru person  :-D