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Transfer Files from PC to Amiga Using a Null Modem Cable
- basicplus2 11y agoI transferred files from my commodore 64 to PC by connecting the C64 modem phone line to the PC phone line and powering up by connecting both in parallel with the actual phone line to get the dial tone one modem needed and then by dialing the Telstra number check to trick the dialing modem to think it had successfully dialed a number and get the receiving modem to pick up on the telstra number call back test and to maintain the required Line voltage during the transfer..
- snvzz 11y agoNot sure why this story is so popular. It's just an advertisement for a simple yet very expensive program which solves a well-understood problem that has been solved many times before.
- quincunx 11y agoMade me curious enough to find the price, perhaps I'm not looking right, are you calling the "Amiga Explorer" program of $9.95 "very expensive" (found here: http://www.amigaforever.com/ae/ http://www.amigaforever.com/ae/ ) or is there some other program you're referring to?
- snvzz 11y agoYeah. And even a simple aminet search like this: http://aminet.net/search?query=serial+transfer http://aminet.net/search?query=serial+transfer Does show a load of free alternatives.
- erickhill 11y agoThere are a few free file transfer programs out there often limited in size they can send or one at a time), but I think AExplorer may be one of the only dummy-proof options out there that installs the "receiver" script for you on the Amiga side while also providing an easy to use file browser on the PC side with few file limitations. If the ones on Aminet do that, too, then that would be very cool.
- unwind 11y agoCool! I first thought the install-over-serial meant they had found some kind of "exploit" of the AmigaOS, but it turned out you do have to run a command on the Amiga to copy incoming data into a file. Phew! Also, this part: Be sure you plug the cable into the Serial port on the Amiga, not the Parallel port! They look the same. Was interesting, since it's clear from the picture (and "general knowledge") that a 25-pin serial port and a 25-pin parallel port do not look the same; the serial port is male on the computer, while the parallel port is female. Thus, it's not possible to plug the cable, which was very well-specified in the article to have a female plug, into the parallel port.
- StavrosK 11y agoYou can plug anything into anything, with enough force.
- Sami_Lehtinen 11y agoI used null-modem-cable, called rs-cable between my Casio FP-200 "laptop" and 286 AT PC. Later Laplink was used to transfer files much faster over parallel port.
- cnvogel 11y ago...and also the method to get laplink to the other PC was quite similar: http://imgur.com/J5lCnbz http://imgur.com/J5lCnbz MODE COM1,2400,n,8,1,p -> configure serial port CTTY COM1 -> let the other computer control the terminal (command.com)
- stewbrew 11y agoOMG What's next? Connecting the Amiga with a TV set?
- nobleach 11y agoOr connecting it with a Toaster???
- clort 11y agoSurely would be better to use SLIP or PPP and set up a IP network.. Amiga could certainly do that, I did so back in the day. Mind you, I don't know if modern Windows can do SLIP ..