I have an A-1200 with OS 3.0, an Efika with MOS 2.0, a PC with Unix, a null modem cable, and I would like to know if there's some software I can use to transmit files.

Like, I could transfer files from Amiga to Unix and from there to MOS, or directly from OS 3.0 to MOS 2.0. Which software can I use to accomplish that?

Also, is there a way to connect an Amiga floppy drive to a USB port, or if there's a way to connect any floppy drive (that can read Amiga disks) to MOS 2.0 on Efika.

Any help would be appreciated!

The best and the easiest way to transfer files from the Amiga is to buy this from AmigaKit:

http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=42&products_id=440&osCsid=5f0dca8c379cb0bfbb2c6b72709bef2a

It's a CF adapter. Of course you will need a CF card reader to the peecee.

With null modem cable, is another way to transfer files, but I really never tried that.

When I want to transfer files to MorphOS I always used a USB stick.

I would say you can make a LAN between the Efika and the Amiga using the null modem cable and some device I do not remember the name of (must be on Aminet or part of some TCP/IP stack).
I used to put an A600 online this way, using another machine as the gateway.

And use the PC + the Amiga's crossdos filesystem to copy the required binaries to the Amiga.

This solution requires you to buy...nothing :-)


[ Edited by Henes on 2008/7/6 15:17 ]

@Henes
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What's its name? I remember using ParNet once, but that works only between Amigas. There must be something using the serial interface. There is some software included in AmigaForever (AmigaExplorer), but I don't have a Windows box up and running right now.

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My current PC has no floppy controller; hence, it's impossible to connect a floppy drive to it. Things would get complicated if I would use one of my old Windows boxes (broken CD burner, Samba setup hassles on Unix; I could use an FTP server though).

But thanks for reminding me! I haven't even thought of that! Perhaps I can use it as an intermediate solution.

@Phantom
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Thank you!!

I've ordered myself one, and a USB CF reader for my PC. (the latter one was long overdue anyway, since I have a camera using CF but no card reader, only USB, which nowadays can incur problems on Unixes, because they try to mount the camera as a camera, not as a USB drive! ).

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Yeah, I would like to know which software to use for that.

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Yup, that's good for between MOS and Unix. Are there any USB kits for Amigas?

@ voyager2007

This suggestion is useful only if all your computers are connected to the same modem/router for common access to the web.

In such a case, the simplest way to exchange data between your computers is to download rc-ftpd from Aminet and use it to set your Amiga or Efika or Pegasos as a FTP server to which you connect the other computers (in the LAN created by the router) by means of an FTP client like AmiTradeCenter.

@v2097

I guess it was some SLIP device.... so slip.device maybe? :)

Thank you, guys!!