The files produced by transdisk won fit on a 720K floppy. Whats going on?
A standard low-density Amiga floppy disk has a capacity of 880 KB. Since transdisk copies the entire disk structure, it copies all 880 KB, or 901120 bytes, regardless of whether the disk is full or not. The (inferior 🙂 standard low-density PC floppy only holds 720 KB and you probably need to transfer at least Kickstart and Workbench using this method, so you have a few choices. You can compress them using a programme for which you have copies for both machines, e.g. Zip or LhA, then copy the compressed version to your floppy disk, transfer it and decompress it on the destination machine. Once your emulation is up and running, you can decompress the files under emulation using the same Amiga programme you compressed them with. Better still, some versions of UAE support gzipped .adf files, so you can compress the .adf on your Amiga with GZip and leave it compressed on the emulation machine. UAE will decompress it on the fly as long (NOTE CAREFULLY) as you have a copy of GZip in the com
