Short: Easy GUI for Serial file/floppy transfer Author: Roc Vallès i Domènech Uploader: vallesroc gmail com (Roc Vallès i Domènech) Type: comm/misc Version: 1.1.2 Architecture: other amigaXfer is an easy to use GUI tool for lightning fast serial-port floppy and file transfers. As it uses the Kickstart built-in debugger, no software is needed in the Amiga side. Just loadwb -debug, select the Debug/RomWack/SAD option in Workbench's extra debug menu and enjoy. This is a Win32 (Windows 7+) build. Alternatively, source code (python and m68k assembly) is available under MIT license, and runs on multiple platforms, requiring Python 3.8+, pyserial and wxpython. It is even possible to bootstrap an Amiga for which no bootable disks are available. https://rvalles.net/bootstrapping-an-amiga-without-a-bootable-amiga-floppy.html If you need to use a parallel link cable is, then do consider Ralf Hoffmann's APCComm: http://www.boomerangsworld.de/cms/apccomm/index.html *** AmigaXfer's highlights - Supports RomWack (AmigaOS 1.x, 2.x and Hyperion 3.x) and SAD (AmigaOS 3.x) builtin debuggers. - High speed transfers; 512kbps possible on basic 68000 @7MHz A500. - Can be used to bootstrap an Amiga for which no bootable disks are available. - Checksums (CRC32/ISO-HDLC) used throughout to ensure transfer integrity. *** About the serial port - Only three wires are used: RX, TX and GND. - "null-modem" cable setup: -- RX / RX -- TX / TX -- GND -- GND - IBM PC standard serial port only support up to 115200 bps. - USB-serial controllers can generally handle higher speeds. - Short cables work better. USB adapters can make this trivial. - Some DB25<>DB9 adapters are crossed (null-modem), some are not. Beware. *** Entering the debugger - Load WB with "loadwb -debug", then select romwack/sad on debug menu. - Use provided debug AmigaOS binary and icon, on CLI or WB. - Boot from provided debug bootblocks. - Crash the Amiga, enter the debugger as power led blinks. -- Refer to URL above or included bootstrap doc. - Crash the Amiga with a non-critical guru (no reboot or blinking led). -- Use ResetFirst setting, right click the mouse on guru screen. *** Features - Floppy Tool -- Read/Write/Compare ADF. -- All four floppy drives. - Bootblock Tool -- Write included bootblocks to any floppy drive. -- Does read and apply the existing filesystem's flags. -- Able to format the first track to make non-Amiga formatted disks bootable. - DOS Tool (preview) -- Read and write files. -- Volume names are discouraged. Drive names are recommended. -- Use of RAM: recommended, particularly as destination. -- If targetting floppy drives (like DF0:), delays to allow drive to settle. -- Hard disk targets are discouraged, as writes could happen late if at all. - ROM Tool -- Dump the Amiga's kickstart rom. *** Version History 1.1.2 (2022-08-21) - SetupDialog -- Open serial in exclusive mode if possible. -- Support for interrupting the DEL-sending CrashEntry routine. - BootblockTool -- Remove stale code from debug/optdebug bootblocks. -- New "noboot" bootblock: Amiga won't boot it. DOS can still access. - RomTool -- Fix: Progressbar progress display was not accurate. - Fix: Clear icache on code upload (020+). (Thanks to TerribleFire, issue #1) - Improved log output. 1.1.1 (2021-07-08) - SetupDialog -- Detect missing m68k objects. -- Better UX on connection issues. - BootblockTool -- New bootblocks: --- exitstrap is a hack to actually exit strap's init routine. --- warmdos is exitstrap + start dos via WarmCapture(). A curiosity. - DOS Tool (preview) -- BUG: Fix crash with AmigaOS 2.x and setpatch. -- File transfers can now be interrupted. - Improved log output. - Thanks to Ralf Hoffmann for AmigaOS 2.x issue report and testing fix and Daniel Doran for pre-release testing. 1.1.0 (2021-05-18) - SetupDialog -- ResetFirst will reboot machine during connection. --- Allows entry via non-critical guru right click. --- Writing floppies is slightly faster in this environment, due to less tasks running. --- DosTool not usable in this environment due to dos.library being not yet initialized. - FloppyTool -- BUG: Fixed tool not working at all and instead spitting FCh ioerr on some machines. --- Thanks to Michael Kagerbauer for reporting issue and testing fix. -- Disk2ADF will now retry reads 5 times before giving up. -- More user friendly IO error reporting. --- Thanks to Michael Kagerbauer for feedback on old IOERR reporting. - BootblockTool -- Better error reporting. - BUG: Fixed issue in workaround for WRITE_BYTE SAD bug (kick v39). - Workaround introduced for SAD reboot function ACK bug. -- SAD doesn't check TSRE after writing ACK to SERDAT; reboot will interrupt ACK on a fast CPU. -- Don't bother waiting for ACK. - Floppyless Bootstrap should now work on all kickstarts. -- Tested on kickstart 34/37/39/40/45/46. - Size SetupDialog/RomTool windows to contents. -- Thanks to Alexander Fritsch for feedback/screenshots on window sizing issues with some win7 themes. - Cleaned up tool startup/cleanup procedures for all tools. 1.0.1-newzip (2021-04-03) - Reissued zip as win7's zip support had trouble unpacking the old one. It does not like advzip (advcomp) zips. 1.0.1 (2021-04-02) - RomTool -- Initialization GUI work outside GUI thread issue fixed. -- Kickstart detection logic is now slightly more clever. -- Can now be interrupted mid-dumping. -- Larger transfer blocks, faster dumping. -- Timer added. -- Debug text output added. - DosTool -- Target directory can safely contain a trailing slash. -- Buffer size scales with free RAM, up to 256KB. Faster. -- Timer added. - FloppyTool -- Progressbar added. - UI improvements. - Documentation improvements. 1.0.0 (2021-03-25) - Initial release. *** Other Amiga projects from me - comm/term/amigaterm_enh: 1985 serial port ANSI Terminal, enhanced