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Hi Guys...

Now that I'm also a proud owner of a X68000 SUPER HD (CF) with a CN-614D-TN monitor including the original speakers.

I noticed I want to move files from my PC to or from the X68000.
What are convenient ways to do this?

Is there some expansion card that has USB that you could access?

Network card maybe?

I wish this was as simple as on other systems. It seems that most of the tools that exist have a non-zero chance of corrupting the images that get written to the CF card.

What worked for me before is mounting a local directory on the Raspberry Pi as a drive with FDX68 (and I'm sure there's something similar with RaSCSI) and copying the file over.  I would be interested to hear how others do it.

Depends on how much you want to move.  Corruption is caused by diskexplorer.  So I typically do small transfers within emulation.  For example, I will load up my hdd image in xm6, then mount the floppy image I want and copy/dump the floppy into the hdd image like on a real machine.

For mass file transfers, you can do the same thing by making CD images. 

It's also possible to use serial cable transfer or network if you have the hardware. 

Back when I made my own image I used diskexplorer, then went through and manually replaced all the corrupted files one by one.  Took a long time, but only had to do it once...lol.

I use RaSCSI's directory share feature, but serial XMODEM should work as well.

I use a serial to usb cable and a pc to transfer files.

This guide is good:
https://gamesx.com/wiki/doku.php?id=x68000:file_transfer_between_windows_pcs_and_x68000_machines_using_null_modem_cable

If you have the V4 image then iirc MuTerm is already on it.

Quote from: trixster on May 03, 2022, 04:40:13 AMI use a serial to usb cable and a pc to transfer files.

This guide is good:
https://gamesx.com/wiki/doku.php?id=x68000:file_transfer_between_windows_pcs_and_x68000_machines_using_null_modem_cable

If you have the V4 image then iirc MuTerm is already on it.

Hey that sounds like it might be a pretty good option, but that guide looks ANCIENT and could probably use an update. Sounds like MUTERM would be the best option, so not sure how much of the rest of the guide applies. Also, Tera Term is an old and long-dead application. I presume that any Telnet/Serial client like Putty could probably do the job...?