Posted Wed Feb 08, 2017 1:39 pm
Someday you should give the combination of transdisk and A-Explorer a try. Ever since I started it was instant, I was never going back to one disk at a time. It's especially useful when you just want to be lazy and not jump right to the Amiga every time you download a new disk. Collect a bunch of them; then use WinRAR to zip them on the PC. Don't use Windows built in zip manager though, for whatever reason it never works... Maybe it's a 64-bit thing, get WinRAR 32-bit to be safe. Compress them using the normal method, using a slower method gains you no compression and a longer wait on both the PC and Amiga end. But you'd be amazed at how compact adfs can get zipped.
Download "unzip" from Aminet for the Amiga. Send the zip over, and just go off to do other things... Or fiddle around in the background on the Amiga... I find by doing it this way, when I'm in the mood, I can throw them to the Amiga and just spend 10 minutes on another project. By the time I come back they're usually done. Since they're compacted it will always be faster than one at a time... I always throw them to the RAM drive at first to save more time.
From a shell it's nice and simple; unzip adfs.zip and it goes by pretty damn fast. Disk Master 2 has lha support built in, so you could just double click an lha file and it would unzip it, given you had the proper program. No such like with zips though... Perhaps DOpus would? Anyway, you'll need the shell anyway for transdisk. And I've never run across a windows program that will put something into LHA format, only stuff that will unzip it. Which sucks because LHA is actually a better format...
Transdisk will write to and from a disk in less than a minute on the actual Amiga. It's the serial cable that makes writing take so long, not the program. Less than one minute to write an adf using transdisk if it's already on the Amiga. The opposite would be true as well, just write some disks when you're in the mood on the Amiga, put them in a folder, you can archive using LHA on the Amiga... Send them to the PC when you get the chance.
It's one of those things that seems like it's too much to be bothered with, but once you do it once you'll never use AmigaExplorer to send disks one at a time again. Power using!!!