Just won an Amiga 500...

[neofree]

Just won an Amiga 500 on eBay, but I'm wondering how I'll get data to it.

I am seeing things like floppy drive emulators that read SD cards, and a cable that goes to a parallel port on your PC and emulates a floppy drive.  The latter was much cheaper and seems like my best option at the moment.

I know about using terminal programs and null modem, but I wan't something better than that.

Any other ideas?

Thanks,

Neofree

[giZmo350]

CrossDOS is the easiest and quickest for anything that will fit on a floppy disk.
I always always use to use a cd burner in my A2000 to get stuff from the internet for my A500 - just burn the LHA's, ADF's, etc... to a CD from the PC then create the floppys on the A2000 from the stuff on CD.
That was before I got an A1200. Now I just drop files on a USB flash drive from the PC and create floppy on the A1200 - too easy!
Looks like you've been around long enough to know the drill though!  ;-)

BTW, In my first early days with an A500 (about 6 years ago) I got the most fun from the A500 by just buying Amiga games from ebay - still do!

[Cammy]

There are several methods of getting data from a PC to an Amiga explained on this site - http://wiki.abime.net/file_transfer/index

[VingtTrois]

Just won an Amiga 500 on eBay, but I'm wondering how I'll get data to it.

I am seeing things like floppy drive emulators that read SD cards, and a cable that goes to a parallel port on your PC and emulates a floppy drive.  The latter was much cheaper and seems like my best option at the moment.

I know about using terminal programs and null modem, but I wan't something better than that.

Any other ideas?

Thanks,

Neofree

AMIGA 500 ZORRO Adapter Board!
http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?t=4617