I love it. But for years I used another program that was free. That should be discussed for anyone that wishes to go that route. If you're just wanting to put disk images from the PC to an Amiga floppy disk than there is a great free utility called Transdisk that I've used. I'm not here to give a guide on that one, it's in my video if anyone really cares My style is more off the cuff information VS step by step.
Basically, if you look up transdisk and read the documents, in order to get the program over to your Amiga in the first place you'll have to write a Basic program It's fun just to have it on your computer so you have an excuse to mess around in Basic which when run will allow you to input the name and size of a file to be transfered from the PC.
You use transdisk on the PC end to send the Amiga transdisk file over via that Basic program. Keep in mind the Basic program would only be needed for Workbench 1. And this can all be put on a floppy or hard drive, whichever works best for whoever. You then run transdisk from a shell I should remember the exact command Then you go over to the PC and use the transdisk program there to send the adf over.
It's actually a very nice and simple free alternative that I still use when I only have say one or two disks to send over. Much of the time I end up collecting a bunch of disks, putting them in a zip file, then sending the zip file to the Amiga to be unzipped from there.
If you want to do this which is highly recommended to decrease file size and thus make everything faster then you will actually NEED Transdisk if you wish to copy adf files on the Amiga to a disk drive on the Amiga.
I mean maybe you can do that with AExplorer too, I've never tried to copy an adf that was already on the Amiga to a floppy drive on the Amiga. But I know for those zip files I use which contain a bunch of adf files I always use transdisk to copy the adf on the Amiga to a disk drive. Your mind will be blown away at how fast an adf will write on the actual Amiga VS it via null modem. But yet So much time and sanity has been saved by collecting a larger batch of files, zipping them, throwing them over to the RAM disk or hard drive of the Amiga, going off to do your own thing, coming back, and then unzipping them on the Amiga and using Transdisk to copy the adfs from the Amiga super quickly to the disk drive.
Less than a minute to copy an adf already on the Amiga to a disk drive. It's so wonderful. But yeah, anyone looking for a free alternative to AExplorer, or as a supplement to Amiga explorer if you wish to send a bunch of zipped files over and copy the adfs later, it's definitely worth looking up. If you want to copy an adf already on the Amiga to DF0: I should hopefully remember the command here I never use transdisk to copy an adf to DF1: because rather than say adding DF1: to that shell command, which would make sense, it becomes several words of BS you'll do a couple times and then never again.
Posted Sat Mar 19, pm Great stuff, man. Please feel free to link to your relevant YT videos in your posts wherever you see fit. I took shots of my actual screen as sort of proof that I went through the process, but also because I wasn't sure about screen capping the Amiga. I may try your suggestion this weekend.
Which programs do you prefer to use? I've watched your video about transferring files. Hell I've not been able to move a single disk's worth over - the KB unpacked I guess is still too large to fit.
So I pass it all by and shoot it to my HDD. You can absolutely use AExp to move over whatever you want. Posted Wed Mar 23, am Here is the video I did about all this in case anyone wants a visual. Although what is written above is a much better step by step guide. All of these guides I do are primarily to tell people it's all possible, that it's not too hard.
It baffles my mind how hard some people make it out to be. I'll never understand how people emulating an Amiga can bitch about 12 disk games when they could so easily emulate a hard drive and install the thing.
All my stuff is unscripted, stuff I know having dealt with it. I think the reason I made the transferring video was from reading people pretty much recommending you get a better Amiga in order to transfer things. If you are going to use Amiga Explorer over a null-modem serial cable, right-click the Amiga Explorer "Amiga" icon on the Desktop, select Setup, and follow the instructions to have the files automatically copied over the serial cable.
Even an old 1. This method is pretty amazing if you are familiar with the technical difficulties involved, as no terminal, PC file system, Amiga Basic, or additional software other than a bootable Amiga are required by this process. On the other hand, a disadvantage of this method is that the initial part works without error handling, so it is not always easy to troubleshoot.
If you have Workbench 2. After the files have been copied, it is important to make sure that these file names are restored, if they were modified by the copy process if the Amiga does not support long DOS file names. Some Amiga computers do not support high-density floppy disks, in which case you need to use an Amiga floppy disk, and format it on the PC at kb not 1.
Click on the Install button. The installation will then start. You may be prompted by Windows UAC to allow the installation to start. Once the installation is completed, click on the Finish button and this will close the Setup Wizard. Section 2: Serial Null-Modem Cable. A serial null-modem cable is required to connect the Amiga to the PC. Alternatively you can choose to make your own cable. Below are the pin-outs for the serial null-modem cable shown on the Cloanto website.
USB serial port adapters will work just fine. Once Workbench is up and running, right-click on the Amiga Explorer icon on your Windows PC and choose the Setup option from the pop-up menu.
On the Workbench version confirmation dialog, click on Yes button if the Amiga is running Workbench 2. The next window will describe the serial port preferences required for the Amiga.
Write Bits: 8. Follow the instructions described on the Amiga Explorer Setup dialog. Nothing will appear to happen, that is normal. The first thing you need to know is load your Workbench disk on your Amiga, when it finish loading double click on the Workbench disk icon to open it. So far pretty easy don't you think!!
Now on the Serial settings put these values. Settings will be kept on RAM. Put these values on the fields: note: in english is Bits per second, Data Bits, Parity, Flow control.
Install Amiga Explorer, then right click the icon on the desktop and select Setup.
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