Has this happened to anyone else? Last week I bought an ADF transfer kit containing an Amiga floppy disk of the Paradise software by Giuseppe Mignogna, as well as a custom made lead as described by him for connecting Amiga and PC parallel ports, all to be used with a download of a Windows program called ADF transfer.
I soon managed to get it to transfer ADF files from the PC onto Amiga floppy disks in drive df0: , but I didn't manage to get it to transfer any files of an Amiga floppy disk containing my artwork onto the PC hard drive. I later realised that a certain folder which was supposed to contain a DOSbox conf file didn't exist, so I created it and copied the file into the right folder, then it started to work, but complained about a checksum. Unfortunately, before I got to that stage I found that I could no longer copy ADF files from the PC to the Amiga! Every ADF file I try to copy over to the Amiga is now too long at 912,384 bytes, instead of 901,720 bytes, which is a difference of 10,664 bytes. I noticed that the latest downloaded files were 912,384 bytes, while even my attempts to transfer a file of 901,720 bytes I had downloaded and successfully copied over before ended up with its file length increased to 912,384 bytes!
Unfortunately, before this started happening I turned the Amiga off to move it out of the way, then unplugged the parallel cable from the Amiga, but forgot to turn off the PC before unplugging the cable from the Amiga. Obviously, this may have caused the problem, but I can't be sure. Since then, I've also uninstalled and reinstalled the Windows ADF transfer software, but this hasn't made any difference. My next step is to install a new parallel port onto the PC.
I'm going to contact the seller of this kit, as well as Giuseppe Mignogna, but I don't know if they can tell me what's gone wrong or how soon this would be, so I thought I'd post here as well.