[quote name=\'jrjgames\' date=\'Aug 12 2003, 07:04 PM\'] As for uploading the games...can a PC read an Amiga floppy? I have no idea how to get them to a PC for emulation play. [/quote]
PCs can't read Amiga floppies without special hardware or software assistance, but the reverse -- reading and writing PC floppies in an Amiga -- is usually fairly simple with CrossDOS, which was included with later versions of the Amiga OS. Just compress the files using Zip or LHA, copy to a PC floppy in the Amiga, then bring the floppy to the PC. If you don't have CrossDOS, there's also freeware which can do most of what CrossDOS does.
If you have to go the other way, supposedly this program can read Amiga floppies in a PC...
http://www.oldskool.org/disk2fdi/I've never tried it, but if you have a PC with two 3.5\" floppy drives -- not common these days, I know -- then it might be worth a shot. There are also hardware solutions like the Catweasel ISA/PCI card (which uses a PC floppy drive) and the \"Amiga Floppy Reader\" add-on (which connects an Amiga floppy drive to the PC), but they're typically either expensive to buy or complicated to build; they're worthwhile only if you have many disks to transfer.
Alternatively, you can use a serial cable to connect the PC and the Amiga together and transfer the Zip or LHA archives directly using a terminal program at each end... or, if your Amiga has Internet access, you can email the files to yourself or use an FTP or web server as the intermediary.
- David
(ran an Amiga lab for a year in med school)
