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Cato Myrkaskog <Cato.Myrkaskog@hiMolde.no> wrote:

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> I'm having the same problem, and no internet access from my amiga 500.
> The worst problem is that my only remaining copy of wb went down below
> yesterday, so I have to find a new copy somewhere...... I have
> adf-files of wb, but how on earth...... ????

Oh dear :(

You need to find any disk that will boot the machine and give
you at least a shell, you'll also need at a minimum a null-modem
cable and access to a PC, preferably one with a CD-ROM drive...
Hopefully you'll have a CD somewhere that has most, if not all,
of WB on. Also you'll want to download a copy of MessyDOS
and probably the msdos lha (in /misc/emu) as well as an Amiga
lha and TwinExpress.

First I'll deal with the easy bits, whilst I think about the
difficult bit.

Turn both machines off, connect the null-modem cable, boot them.
Once we've managed to get them talking you need to copy the
WB and Messy-DOS software to the Amiga and install it.

You also need the boot floppy be able to mount the SER: device
(offhand I can't remember what you need to do this under WB1.3).

After you've "copied" the TwinExpress software from the PC to the Amiga,
and get it running, you can use it to copy the Amiga Format command
from the CD, format some new boot floppies then copy the rest of WB
from the CD to your new floppies....

Then you can transfer MessyDOS across and install that.

Now the really hard bit, how to get any files from the Amiga to
the PC without using MessyDOS or TwinExpress or in fact any kind
of Term-type prog.  available. 

It _may_ be possible using the SER: device and stdio indirection 
(the famous "Laplink" PC software can use this technique to install
itself across a null-modem link from one PC to another). Essentially 
what you do on the PC side is

COPY filename COM1:

And on the Amiga side

type SER: > filename

Do this for the Amiga TwinExpress executable, then run it!

NB it's been a fair while since I've played with the serial
port like this and I can't remember the details. You may need
to play with the Amiga Serial Prefs and some MODE COM commands
on the PC to successfully transfer a file like this.

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