My guess is that the port is still in use from the SER: to RAM:Setup command you launch to get the setup program down in the first place. For me the setup program seems to be running itself at the end of the transfer and then complaining about the serial port. Hence the Amiga Explorer for older machines tries to bootstrap itself by first copying down a small setup program to the RAM disk, and then using that to transfer the whole Amiga Explorer program down.Īccording to the instructions the setup program should copy itself into the RAM disk, and then you Ctrl-C the CLI shell launch it manually from there. The CLI work is what is necessary to 'boot' the system -> you can't load a PC disk under WB1.2 so you have no way of transferring the files to the Amiga (You can use cross doss, but unless you have that already in an Amiga format you are stuck). The amiga 1000 has a female serial port so I can't try that machine till I get a gender changer.

I have an amiga 1000 and amiga 500, so no hard drive. Obviously the connection is working at some point, or the AExplorer shell command couldn't be transferred and then run. I have tried interupting the program with Ctrl-C as the instructions mention, but to no avail. If I inspect the RAM disk then there is nothing there. However when the transfer finishes, it automatically opens a new window on the Amiga 500, called 'AExplorer', lists some details about the serial settings then closes and opens up a smaller window that says 'Serial Connection cannot be opened' then closes and returns to the CLI. The instructions tell me nothing should happen on the Amiga when the transfer is complete, and that I should Ctrl-C the CLI window and then execute 'Setup' on the RAM disk. When I setup the Amiga Explorer, I follow the prompts, type SER: to RAM:Setup in the CLI on the Amiga, then start the transfer going on the PC. I have tried running the Amiga Explorer setup software on 3 of my XP PC's and get the same problem:. I am using Kick/Workbench 1.2 (Highest I have). Unfortunately the serial port on the A1000 appears to be female and I don't have a gender changer so I can't use that machine. I have two Amigas (both USA), an Amiga 500 with 1meg and an A1000 with 512k. I have a Belkin F3X171-10 null modem cable that I have checked against the wiring diagram provided by Cloanto using a multi-meter and verified is ok. The issue I am having didn't seem to come up in the search. I am trying to use Amiga Explorer and I am having problems.

Amiga explorer serial settings