amigaXfer: Fast agentless serial port transfer tool. Bootstrap Amiga w/o floppies.

[dmac]

amigaXfer is an Amiga GUI serial port transfer tool, multiplatform, written in python (3.8+), using wxpython and pyserial.

Its main feature is that it does not require special software on the Amiga side,
as it uses the kickstart's builtin serial debugger.

Additionally, it can be used to bootstrap an Amiga without bootable floppies.

https://www.rvalles.net/bootstrapping-an-amiga-without-a-bootable-amiga-floppy.html

By disabling interrupts and polling the serial port directly, speeds as high as
512kbps are achieved, even on a basic Amiga 500 with its 7MHz cpu clock.

Both floppy images and files can be transferred in both directions.

Download: https://github.com/rvalles/pyamigadebug/releases/

 

[bakemono]

Very interesting. I never heard about kickstart having a built-in serial debugger before.

 

[dmac]

Very interesting. I never heard about kickstart having a built-in serial debugger before.

AmigaOS 1.x and 2.x kickstarts have RomWack. It is documented in the Amiga Rom Kernel: Exec book.

AmigaOS 3.x's got SAD, it is documented in the ndk.

 

[tingo]

Nicely done!

 

[dmac]

amigaXfer 1.0.1 released.

https://github.com/rvalles/pyamigadebug/releases/

 

[dmac]

amigaXfer 1.1.0 released.

All users are recommended to upgrade.

https://github.com/rvalles/pyamigadebug/releases/

 

[dmac]

amigaXfer 1.1.1 now available.

Highlights:

• Bugfix for setpatch'd AmigaOS 2.x crashing on Dos Tool.
• Filetransfers can now be cancelled.

Full list of changes on the links below.

https://github.com/rvalles/pyamigadebug/releases
http://aminet.net/package/comm/misc/amigaXfer_win32