[XCSSA] Amiga help??

xcssa@xcssa.org xcssa@xcssa.org
Mon, 05 Feb 2007 13:55:57 -0600


Not to my knowledge.  The guts of PC2amiga is a program (pc2amiga.exe) 
that runs on the PC and does all the work there.  That was all I ever 
heard about.  There might be something for OS X now.  Search the web to 
find out.

xcssa-admin@xcssa.org wrote:

> Charles, does pc2amiga work with OSX?
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> On 2/5/07, xcssa-admin@xcssa.org <xcssa-admin@xcssa.org> wrote:
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>> For years, I've been using a freeware utility, PC2Amiga, to connect my
>> Amiga 3000 and my Windows 98 machine for file transfers.
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>> I believe you can use parallel or serial cables.  I believe I am using a
>> parallel "laplink" cable.  A good place to find out about  this is on
>> groups.google.com.
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>> Once you get it working, it's very reliable, except its window on PC
>> needs to be kept on top or the connection waits too long and quits after
>> awhile.  This happens no matter how you set the terminal settings.
>>
>> I understand that it works on Windows XP also...you have to create a
>> virtual DOS/98 window for it.  You can find out more about that on
>> groups.google.com.  I though I'd be moving to XP last year, but I've
>> generally found XP so horrible (one giant piece of closed-system adware)
>> I'm still sticking with 98 (and Mac OS X) and using my XP machine as a
>> Sonos fileserver only.
>>
>> Charles
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>> xcssa-admin@xcssa.org wrote:
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>> > Just got my hands on the 3000 offered by Nick, thanks again!!!! Now
>> > this afternoon I've been reading and reading and can't find how to
>> > transfer disk files to the Amiga. Some say to use a null modem cable,
>> > what about setting up a UAE environment on my PC, mounting the Amiga
>> > hard drive as DH1: then copying everything across, then reinstalling
>> > in the Amiga?
>> >
>> > Is there a utility that will let me copy an ADF file to my PC's 
>> floppy?
>> >
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