No floppy drives, no CD rom, and a ton of software to upgrade before I can even get the project on the starting block.... I could wait for the new stuff to arrive, but knowing ebay and shipments from Canada that could be weeks.
By this stage I'd received my Kickstart 3.1 rom and installed it.
No way to network - I have no network card in it, and to put one in would cost over a hundred bucks.
No terminal software - so not even xmodem or kermit can help me out.
Amiga Explorer looked like a likely solution - an extension of Windows Explorer that lets you browse, drag - drop copy files to your Amiga over a null modem cable. It can do quite a bit more too - but most importantly you can set it up on the Amiga side by using just a few DOS commands.
Well and good - but with wb1.3 I couldn't get it working beyond step-2 of the setup. Could be something with the software - could be something with the setup left behind on this machine. Maybe something to do with the new rom and the old WB software.
I'll have no way of knowing. Mind you it did give me enough insight into the process to work out what it was trying to do - and with a bit of fudging and googling I came across another method.
ADF-Sender is a similar program (though less featurefull) for sending files, and more importantly it goes into the methods and problems you might have... So after some messing around with it, I managed to get AREXX across to the new machine - and with something to actually PROGRAM with, a few hours later I was able to send the new WB disks and virtual floppy utilities across - Install the new Workbench software, setup Amiga Explorer and start transferring files - all the software I'd been accumulating and testing on WinUAE to begin the project!
Sure I could have waited a few weeks, but from past experience I know that if I set a project aside for a while, the enthusiasm wanes until it becomes a project I'll 'get around to' - and some projects, like replacing my old Amiga - can sit around for 11 years before I get back to them...
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