(OT) transfering non-standard amiga disks.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

anyone know how to transfer non-standard amiga disks to pc?

[Suicide Junkie]

Floppy transfers
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&ie...2+floppy&meta=
- See: http://cloanto.com/kb/3-118.html

Freeware Amiga to PC (software)
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&ie...freeware&meta=

Looks like you may need an operational Amiga computer to do file transfers.

[ August 26, 2003, 02:48: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

i've got the cloanta cheap file transfer thing and an amiga, the only problem is it uses the standard workbench file reading thing and that can't read non-standard disks, so i can't transfer any of my psygnosis stuff. i could find it on the internet, maybe, but i'm not to sure i want to wander outside the legal downloads area, even if i already own the game.

[dogscoff]

What model of Amiga is it? If it's one of the later ones (1200, 4000, I think also 600) it has the facility to read/write pc floppies (albeit 720k-formatted ones) built into workbench. Even it's an old a500 you could probably get the software for to do so. The reason PCs can't read/write amiga floppies is that the amiga used more advanced floppy hardware.

Failing that, you can get software for serial/serial or parallel/ parallel transfer. It's slow but reliable, I used to do it all the time. The cables are really cheap (especially if you make them yourself).

You could also get your amiga onto a standard ethernet network if you happen to have the right hardware.

Check out aminet: http://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/aminet/change.html - you'll find about a zillion freeware ami<->PC solutions.

*dogscoff gronks nostalgically

[narf poit chez BOOM]

i have them linked with a serial cable. can that software transfer non-standard disks?

[dogscoff]

Oh I see what you mean. Have a look at that aminet link I pointed to below. There will almost certainly be a utility somewhere to get all the data into amiga-os. I'll have a sniff around as well.

EDIT:
Hmmm.... I don't see anything useful in there, but to be honest I'm not entirely sure how the utility you're looking for would be described. The utility you want is probably right under our noses but not immediately visibe.
What you really need is a forum of dedicated ami-heads to help you out. There must be one somewhere.

*Gronk* *gronk* *gronk*

[ August 26, 2003, 11:12: Message edited by: dogscoff ]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

thanks. i'll pose it on one of those and see if i can get a response. surely someone's figured out how to do this?

[Ruatha]

There was a program I used to use to read alien disk formats, "Anadisk", and there is a new Version out:
http://www.forensics-intl.com/anadisk.html

I haven't used it for many years, don't remember much about it.

It seems Sydex that made anadisk has a kernel for NT/XP to allow reading of alien disk formats:
http://www.sydex.com/special.html

[ August 26, 2003, 20:20: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

[Parasite]

Read the disk into the RAM disk, then write it out using the PC0 drive to a PC formated disk. It will then work on a PC. Make sure you use a floppy with only one "Hole" if you only have a low density drive. A low density Amiga drive will write to high density disk in the wrong format. Tape up the other (high density) hole for a quick cheap conVersion.

Exe files that work on the Amiga will not work on a PC, but data text files should. Make sure the file names are correct, the PC0 will only write 8.3 file names.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

ok, i should have mentioned i only have a 500.
those links look like they might help.

or i could watch lord of the rings 2 again on vhs. that sequence where Gandalf was fighting the balrog and they where falling...

[ August 27, 2003, 08:26: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]