#Program idea
Here's a challenge to the great Amiga programmers out there. Many of us
know of the infamous AREAD and AWRITE commands and what a pain they are.
(For those who don't, they are clumsy MSDOS commands made to transfer data
files between the Amiga side and the IBM side via the bridgeboard.) I
think everyone would rather use a nice intuitionized program rather than a
bogus MSDOS command on the "CLONE" side of their Amiga. Here's the idea.
Imagine a program similar to UtiliMast or ClickDos or Diskman in concept
(preferably ClickDos; simple, efficient). One window is any drive
(device?) on the Amiga side and the other window is any drive (linked or
physical) on the Clone side. You could have a gadget that would be set for
a /B switch, etc. I've had people ask me "why can you only transfer files
while on the Clone side of the Amiga?" They have a good point. The amiga
is a great machine, why not access the Clone files from the Amiga side? Is
the information regarding the interface between the two sides not
available? I suppose it would be difficult, but I suspect it would be VERY
popular (I'd pay $10 shareware :-). I recall seeing a few programmers
asking for project ideas so… thanks for the ear. Joel E. Swan PLINK:
Amiga*Joel CIS: 74746,3240