Reading Kindwords docs on PC

[infidel98]

I hope someone can get me started on this: I have several old Amiga floppies that contain Kindwords documents that I would like to recover. I am currently using a PC (Windows Millenium) and want to convert the files to either Wordpad or Notepad.

At this point, I can't even view the contents of the disc to be sure that the files are still on there.

Anyone have information about how to do this?

Thians in advance,

Bill Leahy
infidel98@aol.com

[jeffimix]

Amiga floppy disks are physically different from PC floppies. There are two ways to get the files on your PC. 1) Buy an Amiga to read the floppies and hook it up to the PC with a serial cable to transfer the contents over 2) Buy a Catweasel floppy controller for the PC.

As to importing the documents into another program, no clue.

[bloodline]

If you have two Floppy drives in your PC then you can use a program called "DISK2FDI" on your PC to copy the Amiga Disks to files on your hard drive... These files (known as disk images) can then be used in an Amiga Emulator like WinUAE from there you can use them as normal disks :-)

[Thomas]

IIRC Kindwords is somehow relted to Wordworth/AmiWrite. (I think AmiWrite is the German version of Kindords and Wordworth is the successor of both).

If this is true, the docs are stored in a binary format which no PC tool can read. So you have to fire up Kindwords again, either on your Amiga or with an Amiga emulator, and export the docs as text or RTF.

Bye,
Thomas

[infidel98]

Thanks to all who replied. Now I have a few things I can try.

Peace,
Bill

[Erwin-K]

Can you get Kindwords to run?

KW's ASCII save function was one reason I kept using it when the kids and I had to deal with PC's at work and school. Save the ASCII file to a DD PC formated floppy. (Just make sure you use, or add, a file extension for the brain dead PC OS.)