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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: ricco32097 on June 03, 2006, 11:15:26 PM
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What, I thought that was impossible...and to write data back to the discs too. ???
Then I saw this:
adfread 1.0 (31.03.2006)
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Adfread will allow you to create ADF floppy disk images from regular Amiga disks using standard PC hardware.
Requirements:
- Windows 2000/XP/2003
- BIOS support for 2 floppy drives
- 2 non-USB floppy drives installed on the same cable
- Regular format Amiga disks without any copy-protection
- A normal PC-formatted 1.44M floppy
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...I might be slow and this might be old news for most. To me this is amazing...downloading it right now. :)
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That's great..... except I don't have a PC.
Still for those with PC's, that must be great news. I know it's been possible for PC's to read Amiga disks for ages, but that was using a method that required loads of extra kit!
Regards,
Lonewolf10
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Old news. About 5 years at least.
Cloanto: Reading Amiga Floppy Disks on PC (http://www.amigaforever.com/kb/3-118.html)
What, I thought that was impossible...and to write data back to the discs too. ???
Writing is not possible, only reading. For writing you need catweasel or similar hw solution.
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Shame that the image cant be read into Ram or a virtual drive (same thing)
Wouldn't need second drive then (plus it has to be on same data cable!)
Taz
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TazzyUK wrote:
Wouldn't need second drive then (plus it has to be on same data cable!)
AFAIK, the software does some nasty things to the floppy disk controller - making use of various tricks that require a second drive to be physically connected, so unfortunately you'd still need the extra drive...
- Ali
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Shame that the image cant be read into Ram or a virtual drive (same thing)
Uh, this is exactly what the program does. Once it has loaded the image it writes it to a ADF. Then you can do whatever you like with the ADF, mount it as virtual floppy or whatever.