Copy files from PC to Amiga - How To Play Amiga Games 

Dan if I keep watching your videos I will end up surrounded by retro computers! Thanks again, expertly explained. Having fun here with an A600 all thanks to you.

you sir are my personal Jesus from now on. I've been trying to build up my classic amiga collection again, and thanks to you everything works as it should. Thank you. You've got yourself a subscriber.

Great Video and at last now I can get my 300+ Amiga Floppy Disks out of my Attic that have been carefully stored for about 15 years now. Plus I have a near mint A1200 that was only used for a few weeks before I packed it away as I was working away for 6 months so I have never bothered to use it much because I had my A500+, I cant wait now to put all those Disks onto a 4GB Sandisk. Will let you guys know in a later date how I get on. Wish me luck!

Nice video. I've been restoring some of my old Amiga 500 files lately and for this kind of hardware I found the best solution to be Cloanto's Amiga Explorer and a NULL MODEM serial cable. The hardest part is finding a good cable that works 100% with Amiga Explorer. The one I have doesn't work in the initial steps of installing the software in the Amiga side but after finding a workaround it works perfectly. Cheers.

Hi Very good video Could you tell me what are the Os os the screens on your right or behind you? MorphOs? Regards

Just this year I finally got my original Amiga hard disk hook up to my PC and ported to WinUAE, it was dead weird watching my classic Amiga set up boot up on a Windows machine. But great vid, I mostly use the CD solution but how good emulation is I use my real Amiga less and less.

Just bought this off AmigaKit along with a CF Hard Drive + Backplate (just makes it easier being able to plug the card in the back rather than having to open up) and tbh I'll use the transfer kit for the 600 anyway when I move onto refreshing that next. I'm thinking I probably won't put a hard drive in the 600 and run games on that from floppy instead (just so I have the option of having those disk sounds available if we fancy it :)

This video gives an extremely rough overview and mainly the hardware involved in "How to" transfer files from PC to Amiga, however for people new to the Amiga, the CF card and PCMCIA card route is pretty difficult even for me who has quite a good knowledge of file systems and partitioning etc. I'm sure that some of the links are useful but it might be more encouraging to see more in depth how to videos, because i've only seen one or two on RU-vid that were in depth enough to fully install an Amiga O/S onto a CF card and actually run the games. from the CF card on that operating system.

what do you think to the possibility of using a USB FDD, preparing disks in emulation and then transferring them to a physical machine?

Well, if I insert the CF into the adapter nothing happens (e.g. it is not mounted nor shown on the workbench desktop). The driver is installed as supposed. That's on a OS 3.9. Do i miss something ? Could the CF be incompatible with the adapter, although I used to have this CF installed internally and boot from it ?

There is yet another way, and that is using the Amiga and PC serial ports. The downsides are that it can be slow, depending on what speed Amiga you have, and that serial ports on PCs are less common now. Also, and this also applies to all the solutions you've mentioned, one really does require a hard drive in the Amiga, or at least RAM expansion and/or a second floppy drive. CrossDOS came with Workbench 2.1 as well as 3.0, there is also a free program called MessyDOS for WB1.3 users.

Ey dan! Im going to buy an amiga 500... ¿its posible to buy a pcmcia to compact flash adapter and do the same as putting the compact flash internally? Thanks!

@00Harbinja00 Thanks, yeah the A1200 runs 3.9, it has an 030 accelerator in it which brings it up to 25mhz and around 70 megs of RAM. I'm going to do a full video on the A1200 soon, I've been setting it up a bit more lately.

I'm assuming a 512MB CF card will get me pretty far (Are you even close to using 4GB on the A600?) [Edit; Actually - Scratch that, the largest working card I've got is 128MB =/). Is getting the CF adapter just my best way of getting to play any downloaded game on my Amiga A600? How do I add games to the CF card? Do I have to get the adapter, install it, format the CF card.. and then what? Plug it into the PC and it will read fine?

Great vid, this connection gives you the possibility of having all Amiga related soft on one tiny SD card as a hard drive. How f***** cool!

How does a Amiga 1200 work if you put it online, and with no tutbo card or extra ram?

hi i have a problem can you help. I bought the amiga cd32 and the floppy drive for it I wanted to play a old game called bloodwych on floppy disk original game. So I put the disk in and it gets to the main menu screen but then crashs I tried it a few times and it crashed the amiga it self as well so I had to turn it off. is it the disk is it the floppy drive or is it a compatibility problem can you help?

You could search on Amibay for Kipper2k's "Amiga 500 4/8mb fastmem boards with IDE". I haven't tried it myself yet, but it looks like an interesting solution. You can also look for the HxC Floppy Emulator to replace your floppy drive with an SD card reader.

I tried getting my A600 on the Internet a couple of years ago. Bought a PCMCIA wireless network card (prism2 chipset), that is supposed to work with the A600. Problem I ran in to was that I needed more RAM to be able to run Miami if I'm not wrong? Do you have an A603 in your 600, or is there another solution?

To write floppies you just need a bit of software like TransADF, that will write it back to a floppy. Find it on Aminet at disk/misc/TransADF.lha

FAntastic your explanation, I really appreciate! After 20 years, finaly I by one amaiga 600, and I byu a pcmcia + 2G PC-Card , to use as HD. Contratulations for you explanation , again!!

Hi, i want to try it with the compact Flash card and the Adapter. My only question is, do i just have to download the amiga Rom adf Files to my pc and then move them on the Flash card and the amiga can read the game files?

Thanks for making a great contribution to us folk who want to get the most out of our old Amiga's :D

I like your video, but I miss some information about HOW you actually do things. For example, using the PCMCIA card + CF card; On which machine do you format the CF card? And which file system do you give it? And what about preparing a CF card in WinUAE, on which machine do you format the CF card first, and in what file system? And when using the CF card in WinUAE, how do you add it? Using a standard directory or a hardfile? How about using a serial or parallel cable for file transfer?

FYI there is a Delock Dual CF 2.5" IDE adapter now a Vesalia.de Looks neat and seems shielded too :)

I have an Amiga 3000 currently with 2.1 ROMS. I bought a SCSI CD ROM drive. The drive doesn’t seem to work. I am going to upgrade to 3.1. Does 3.1 support ISO 9660 format so I can burn from a PC and read on Amiga?

I've only recently started viewing your uploads, Great informative vids dude. Subbed ;) The os on your A1200.... WB 3.09??? And is that running without an accelorator? I havent used an amiga in eons and just getting back into it & keep getting lost lol... I know you're probably uber-busy, But would a look around your amiga setup and demo be a possibilty???

Not sure if that would work. What you want is a monitor that can take the old analogue composite video cables. On the back of your machine I think it is labelled "COL-R" or something similar.. anyway it is the yellow Composite video jack. An LCD screen that was made for use as a TV is likely to have a composite jack but do double check since everything is going digital these days it seems

Dan. Love your videos and as a result of watching several of them I have successfully given the old Amiga1200 a new lease of life with a gotek installed. Any idea how to save progress of games using the gotek? I can find no useful information on the subject.

@Peppzz On a PC you'd need to load it via WinUAE, or on an Amiga, something like Diskimagegui will show them, there are also tools like ADFTODISK to write them to real floppies.

I still have my Dad's A1200 in my bedroom. Not sure if it works anymore. How else would I transfer from Floppy disk to my PC?

How do you get this nice work bench ? I have some ugly with less color. Can someone help me to bridge my 20years of not using my A1200 ?

Yes, you can do it on an A500, but it really requires >1MB of RAM, and a second floppy drive, or hard drive. They're less common on A500's. What version of Kickstart and Workbench do you have?

Hey Dan I love your videos. You have inspired me to purchase an Amiga 600 I use to own an Amiga 2000 & 1000 I'd like to see a video on applications that your using and how to use them.

Hi Dan Love the video’s Nice to know I’m not the only Amiga geek left in the world I’m just waiting on a 1.76 floppy drive before doing a complete rebuild one my A1200 other components are FastATA 1200 MK-IV IDE CF/SATA with 8 Gig cf card partiond in to 4 partishions indevision aga MK 2 aga aca 1232 accelerator and custom paint.

My Amiga is dead. Looks like adfread for me. My disk says Xmas Lemmings but online I can only get New Year Lemmings. Are they they same game????????

I think I will get either the new Minimig or the Natami when it comes out later this year. I believe both of these have Ethernet and SD card slots which should make things very easy. BTW your hair is really cool.

I was told about this option over the CF card route by a (professional).Kingspec-44PIN-IDE-PATA-MLC-4GB-DOM-SSD-Disk-On-Module-4G But I don't know if its cheaper or faster to transfer in the long run. Have I made a mistake in buying this instead of the CF card and adapater?

Would you have a video on how to decompress .LHA files? Thanks!

Hello Dan ive got amiga a600 and i've brought a preinstall hdd with workbench 2.1 with games on it every time i try i used any games or try and open any drawers my amiga keeps on saying out of memory do i need more chip ram or fast ram or both it only had 1mb as stock ?

Hey, how much can a standard Amiga 500 be expanded? I see a set of pins in the trapdoor but have no idea what can be connected to them. It'd be fantastic if I could use standard IDE CD-ROMs and hard drives with my computer.

Absolutely stunning video, thankyou so much. This will help me finish off an update to our old P.D game that I have been hoping to update, called Renegades. 1200 online? You blew my mind!!

Well, try to get an A500 with at least 1MB memory, an external floppy drive would also be handy. Also get some DSDD floppies, you usually find folk on eBay selling collections of 'blanks' or coverdisks that can be reformatted. When you get your Amiga, look me up.

so want a 1200 i used to have a 2000 have no idea what happened to it... :) crazy same as my c64 no idea what happened that that had a floppy driver and action replay etc.. used to have the cnet adapter as well.... used to run a BBS on the amiga... as well... had one of the first 28.8k modems i imported from usr... :) best time ever... thank you for the videos..

hey man. first off, great video! really clear on how to do things :) i've just got a few questions... would i be able to run downloaded games via a pcmcia flash card that i've got? and if so, how would i go about doing it? my a1200 has recognised the external storage i'm just not sure how to go about getting games running from it.

Hi Dan can you tell me how to transfer Amiga 500 software and games from a modern pc ?

Hi, i just got my Amiga 500 plus out but the tv modulator has gone awful. What do you recommend to use to get it working with a VGA monitor please.

hi Dan I have a load of old amiga games in the boxes but most won't load in the amiga is it possible to reload the games back on to the original discs through my pc as i thing my work bench disc is also corrupt

wow, very helpful video and great channel! just subscribed... never heard of the CF-card-method before. keep up the great work!

would replacing the floppy drive with the ide - cf adapter work on the amiga 500?

Hi Dan, Question to you, what you use to "burn" amiga adf image to flopy disc. I mean from amiga OS point of view, is there any way to "burn" adf amiga to flopy disc ?

I found this vid really useful thanks :) Any ideas how would I go about doing the reverse? I got lots of amiga floppies with pics, animations and tunes on that I created & I'd like to back up & read on a PC under emulation. I think the easiest way be to use the PCI slot/CF card method, then use something like EASYADF to make an ADF image of the floppy? After that it just be a case of connecting the compact flash card to a PC using card reader and using WinUAE to access the images?

hi dan recently picked up amiga 1200 dont have workbench 3.1 i also picked up 880k floppy discs but there not for amiga there for atari i have installed winuae on my pc is there away to convert adf files back to floppy disc for the amiga

Can you do it in an Amiga 500? 1200s are expensive on eBay

Hi Dan Thanks for the great work and videos realy good stuff, my favourite and by far the easiest method was without doubt hands down,The GOTEK AS LONG AS YOU INSTALL THE SELECTOR adf file along with all the other adf gaming files. hours of joy and memories came flooding back.......:-)

There are a few old Amiga oddities I'd love to transfer from the original floppies into an ADF format to preserve them in the long term but all the solutions I see seem extremely complicated! I can't see any way of saving these old disks from oblivion!

how connect A600 to LCD home monitor? on e b a y i find only RGB to SCART, but my monitor only D-SUB and DVI.

@2008Overkill Sorry for delay replying, well you just need to format the card in WinUAE as an Amiga drive and ignore Windows!

Serial transfer via a null modem cable would work. Using software like Twin Express.

The same problems in 2021:) I've got A500 and what to do next?:D

Im new on amiga i have 1200 I prepared the 40gb hadrive ide on my pc with uae but at end i stock at the rubbing cable of 44 pins to connected on amiga im from morocco i can found it her someone to help

Hi Dan, it might be helpful to let people know that the WHDLoad only supports 2MB RAM upwards as it uses it's own kickstart in memory (no kickstart disks used to boot the machine obviously). Another thing is the A600 and A1200 Kickstart has to be at least the 37.300 (limited to 40MB HDD), the 37.350 (up to 4GB). I'd recommend going up to a 3.1 ROM on both A600 and A1200 to solve any issues. Also workbench has to be 2.1 at least to have the HDToolBox added to the OS software disks... Another thing *phew!* is some CF cards are not supported by the Amiga. Refer to this page for more info: eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=28249 I found all of this out the hard way trying to get this all to run!! I'm in the process of recording and showing how this is done on my channel (and don't forget Google is your best friend!) Hope this helps you all, oobumblebeeoo

This video looked promising but you didn't explain how to get files and games onto the CF card. It's probably me being thick, I have a CF card installed in my A600 with the Workbench installed, I can remove the CF and connect it to my PC with a USB reader, but it says the card needs formatting. I have Amiga Forever but I don't know how to use that, other than play the games on it.

I started out on commodore but moved to pc and became an expert. Now I'm back on Amiga a total novice. How do i load kickstart onto a floppy from a download, both Amigas are not online, a 500 and a 500+ download to pc,

CFCard adaptor would be best way, or network the Amiga and the PC.

You'd need a scandoubler like the Indivision ECS for that.

Your Workbench install looks fantastic! How do I get mine to look so good :) any help is appreciated.

love watching the voice recording :D

They'd have to be 2.5" IDE to be a drop in replacement though.

You have some cool videos on Amigas.

Now for the real test! Do this on an A500.... -.-

Thanks Dan for quick reply. I'll try on my 600 . By the way: great channel ! Greetz from Poland.

Yeah I have a 603 in the trapdoor on my A600 and a 2 meg PCMCIA Fast ram card to give it 4 megs. My A1200 has an ACA030 accelerator with 64 megs of RAM on it.

Nice vid.. I think by far the easiest would be over network, or PCMCIA. Otherwise you have to open up your Amiga every time to add to the card These days your always gonna be "oh dam, i forgot x utility/game" So for me network access for be far better... It would probably take ages initially copying, but so would any other way.

HI, great video btw! One question, do you know of anyone who would prepare (with all the needed SW and possible with most of the games) and sell the 4GB Compact Flash so I could use out of the box without the need to set it up by myself? I would be willing to pay for it in order to avoid doing it.

i had amiga explorer and used serial cable to send adf to real floppy on amiga.problem was how to get in first adf/or program to make it work to amigaLOL well serial communication. nobody just have video bout that. i bet i did it hard way. just like it should. send it serial cable lol using own program you write to amiga. now finally after many year boughr 1200 it did not have floppy drive(i have same problem) it has hdd i havent found way how useCF slot becouse it need floppy drive xD. so how read CF card on plain workbench 3.1? or do i again need find it hard way.still have serial cable xD

So far all I have seen is information about Amiga and the work bench disk issue (which is why I am looking for a copy of an image to kick start my Amiga500) Every site I look at that claims to have a downloadable image of the file has information but not the image and these are supposed to be enthusiasts who want to see Amiga's run free in the wild, etc... Could you as as someone who is making videos of the Amiga system please help me get the one I just bought up and running again, I bought it for my son (just turned 9) hoping to get him in to older systems and learn programming and not that BS that they teach in schools now... The system I have bought is one of the German made machines (according to the label) its a: Model A500 Serial No 02- 800352 MADE IN GERMANY then something in German then the rest is in English about if you open for repair... etc,. By the looks of it, the seals are intact, so its never been modified but I looked in the part where a hard disk is meant to go and I find that it has a board with ROM's on it and a Switch set to the On position. Powering up I get the Amiga Workbench v1.3 logo and the floppydisk drive is waiting for a disk that I don't have. Another point to make is that the Amiga I have does not have any USB / Flash ports or PCMCIA port to use the compact flash ADF's yet all tutorials I have seen so far have not been helpful because they all refer to PCMCIA ports being used.

Superb! Thanks mate. Great video.

Nice idea :) Hope you enjoy your new Amiga :D

why not just use you com port and telnet that what i did on my amiga 2000 to move files

After looking all those Amiga videos I couln't resist but to look online and buy one. :l A1200 is on it's way now, and I can't remember the last time I was this excited about a peice of hardware! :l What the hell am I doing? :D

Brilliant 😀

Limitations of a 16 bit bus unfortunately.

Hi again, i bought one pcmcia cf but its really slow.

Oh wow. There was me thinking I could just download Amiga “Roms”, plug my usb floppy drive into my pc and drag files onto the floppy and play on my Amiga... damn.

Hmmn not sure it should be quite that slow though :/

Hi guys Just thorght of a question dose any one know how to install os 3.5 from PCMCIMA ? is this even possibe any help much appreceated

I miss the game Deuteros !!!

How can i play .HFE games?

That solution would work great, yep!

It wouldn't work, no.

Well, don't have one yet. I'm guessing it would be 1.3.

14:22 for years i try and try untill find out amiga not read pcmcia slot if you have more than 4mb ram LOL. so basically every yet again new accelerator card comes 8mb hahah. you need disable memory or revome card to read. easiest way was amiga explorer its slow but who cares it worked xD no need floppy or software. you first send software thru serial port. then launch that software and can send files and read/write floppy on amiga. dont know why it took 30minute write floppy. mayby it verify every write bcoz looked like it looping same %

Gets me how 8 people didnt like this video. FFS (No not Fast File System).

Realy Good Video M8. Ive just got myself an Amiga 1200, and was looking for info, on how to transfer files to the Amiga. I also have a MiniMig, which is a fantastic machine, but i wanted to go back to the original hardware. Im a Amiga Fanboy. Check out my RU-vid page. Keep up the good work.

Game afd site?

Does anyone remember the Amiga game Bomb X.

Yes, almost as a floppy speed :D

good teaching but shaw learning program of software learning

Wow!!! ;-)