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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: sbeehre on August 21, 2007, 10:19:27 PM

Title: Mount ADF images as virtual floppys?
Post by: sbeehre on August 21, 2007, 10:19:27 PM

Does anyone know if there is a program for amigaos that would let you mount adf images as a floppy drive? it would be extremely helpful when making WHDload installs because you wouldnt have to write the adf's to disk first.

Title: Re: Mount ADF images as virtual floppys?
Post by: TheMagicM on August 21, 2007, 10:22:21 PM

yes, search aminet.. I forget the name of the proggy but i'm sure someone will post up.

Title: Re: Mount ADF images as virtual floppys?
Post by: motorollin on August 21, 2007, 10:31:40 PM

If you are installing to HDD with WHDLoad, surely you already have the floppies?

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moto

Title: Re: Mount ADF images as virtual floppys?
Post by: madsjm on August 21, 2007, 10:41:24 PM

@motorollin: Maybe his originals have bad blocks?  :-)

I don't think WHDLoad supports cracked versions of the games anyway, just original floppies or sps images.

Title: Re: Mount ADF images as virtual floppys?
Post by: murple on August 21, 2007, 10:45:25 PM

There was just a thread on this about 2 weeks ago, and I posted the link to the Aminet program in it. I think if you search AmiNet for "ADF" its pretty easy to spot.

Title: Re: Mount ADF images as virtual floppys?
Post by: sbeehre on August 22, 2007, 12:51:23 AM

i did a search before i posted but didn't find anything... maybe it was my search text. I do have some original games but since original games are a very rare find here in NZ then cracked games are the only option. I have had some success with cracked games, so some of them definitely do work.

Title: Re: Mount ADF images as virtual floppys?
Post by: Fab12 on August 22, 2007, 12:56:00 AM

IIRC, i used FMSdisk. There's also virtualfloppy, according to aminet. And last but not least, xadmaster has a client that allows to "browse" ffs-formatted adf.

Title: Re: Mount ADF images as virtual floppys?
Post by: murple on August 22, 2007, 01:42:21 AM

Here's the post I referred to.

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=29608

Some cracked games do load with WHDLoad, depends how the originals was protected. In theory you could write your own WHDLoad installers for the cracked versions, but I kinda suspect the official WHDLoad website would be reluctant to host an installer that works on ONLY a cracked version.

Title: Re: Mount ADF images as virtual floppys?
Post by: vic20owner on August 22, 2007, 02:43:33 AM

FMS disk does not let you mount and unmount, or use multiple floppies easily.

Try this one... this is what I used, but I had problems using dms with it... adf worked fine:

http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/diskimage

Just a note it mounts DI0-DI4, DI0:, and DI1: are DSHD not DSDD virtual floppies... use DI2: and DI3: (if I remember correctly).

Title: Re: Mount ADF images as virtual floppys?
Post by: murple on August 22, 2007, 03:38:58 AM

Yeah, thats the one I gave in the thread I linked to as well. As an added bonus, the WHDLoad announcement currently up on amiga.org news says the new version now supports installs from diskimage.device which is pretty sweet.

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=47067