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Since Google has absolutely no information about this...
I need to transfer data (a bunch of dms-files wanted by Zeg, actually) from the A1200 to the PC (running WinXP). The Amiga has no network card so PC2Amiga must be used. It worked nicely in Win98, but not at all in WinXP. Has someone got this to work? Is there any other software that could use the parallell ports? Or, even better, could the Amiga harddrive be connected to the IDE bus of the PC and accessed in some way?
Through UAE perhaps? Or will I have to use floppies... gah!
Fastest/Easiest (If you have a few meg of ram in the a1200)
Put a pcmcia ethernet card in the a1200 and use miami as zeg suggests.
you can easily then run an ftp server on the pc side or use mountsmbfs and copy directly to a share.
A null modem cable with a terminal program should also work, although not that slow. there are custom tools to work with a null modem cable also like "amiga trans" and others
Yes, those methods would work, but I'd rather make it work without having to get extra hardware (or install Linux, which was another suggestion...). Besides, I had a 3com PCMCIA card at home, but it was one of few that Miami didn't support. I found a program called ADFview that claims to be able to let Windows use Amiga harddrives, but when I install the disk in the PC and set it as master, the BIOS sees it, but Windows won't boot at all, and when I set it as slave, it is invisible both to the BIOS and Windows.
Bah, I hate hardware. Hardware should be emulated!
Coma wrote:Besides, I had a 3com PCMCIA card at home, but it was one of few that Miami didn't support.
It may well now be supported. Miamidx doesnt support any pcmcia cards directly. it supports any sana2 device. recently a network driver for 3com pcmcia cards was released
3c589.device is a SANA-II network driver for 3Com Etherlink III PC Cards
(PCMCIA cards). Note that not all 3Com cards work with this driver, and that
some compatible cards are rebranded by other manufacturers. See the
documentation in the archive for a list of compatible cards.
I tried that once, but the machine wouldn't boot at all with the Amiga disk connected... and even if I got that to work, I would now rather have the Amiga permanently connected to the PC network. I didn't care about it for a couple of years but now that the interest has awakened again, I'm about to get ethernet for the Amiga.
Strange... disk is disk, no mattter 2.5 or 3.5 it should work... it might sound silly but have you checked Amiga disk's jumper settings ( master/slave/cable select ) have you tried connecting it to the second IDE channel on your PC motherboard
