#Program idea
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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
I'd love to write utilities for the Bridgeboard, because I do lots of work
on PCs, and it would make many of my tasks easier. Can anyone name ONE
commercial or PD product that moves data across the Bridgeboard? Wanna
know why there aren't any? Because the Janus library is a myth. There is
NO programming interface for it yet. At Dev Con, they distributed an alpha
version that had known big bugs, and the one that most pholks have does not
allow user access to Janus inter-communication functions. Another CBM
screwup.