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Method One: Purchase Amiga Explorer and get a null-modem cable. Amiga Explorer turns your Amiga into a slave, and you tell it what to do via Windows. With an easy to use GUI, you can copy, rename and move Amiga files from floppy disks as well as hard disks. You can also read and write ADF files on the fly using a simple drag-and-drop interface.
Method Two: With Workbench 2.0 and above your Amiga can read PC formatted disks thanks to CrossDOS. Simply copy a zipped ADF-file from your PC harddisk to a 720Kb (not 1.44Mb) PC-formatted floppy disk. The zipped ADF-file may not be any bigger than 720Kb as Amiga drives only can read double-density disks. Insert the disk into your Amiga and use a tool such as TransADF to write the file directly to an Amiga floppy disk. For larger files you may want to look for a split tool so that you can split files over several disks.
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Method Three: A classic and well-tried method is to use TwinExpress along with a null-modem cable. Twin is an easy to use Shell prompt that runs on both the PC and Amiga side. First you must copy Twin to your Amiga. It can be done using Method Two above.
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There are several utilities which can create ADFs from your disks and also be used for transferring ADFs back to real disks. I will only mention ADFBlitzer and TransADF here.
ADFBlitzer
An easy to use utility with a nice GUI. When you start it you have three buttons to choose from: READ, WRITE and QUIT.
TransADF
TransADF has no GUI, but it's easy to use from a Shell prompt. It creates ADFs and can also be used to transfer ADFs back to a real disk.
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Yes, an Amiga drive can read and write PC, Mac and even Atari ST disks. All Amigas (except A4000) have double-density drives, which only let you use 720Kb PC disks.
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Only by installing additional hardware such as Catweasel. While Amiga and PC use the same type of disk drives, the Amiga drive is controlled by custom chips, which writes entire tracks at a time with no sector gaps. PC floppy controllers can't do this.
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