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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: monami on January 07, 2008, 11:03:45 PM

Title: whats that app?
Post by: monami on January 07, 2008, 11:03:45 PM

i thought i read last week that you could run adf images off an amiga hard drive? but i can't remember the name of the app.

Title: Re: whats that app?
Post by: Rob on January 07, 2008, 11:12:12 PM

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

Title: Re: whats that app?
Post by: monami on January 07, 2008, 11:19:06 PM

thanks. thats the one! is there no gui to it or front end? i am crap at dos. :roll:

Title: Re: whats that app?
Post by: Rob on January 08, 2008, 12:16:25 AM

I thought it had its own GUI but I'm unable to check because it crashes under OS4.

Did you make sure to copy zlib.library to libs: and diskimage.device to devs:

Title: Re: whats that app?
Post by: monami on January 09, 2008, 09:35:54 AM

i haven't tried it yet. i was looking at that page where it says "usage."

Title: Re: whats that app?
Post by: motorollin on January 09, 2008, 09:43:15 AM

Just install it then run DiskImageCtrl with no arguments, and it will pop up a GUI to allow you to select the disk image.

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moto

Title: Re: whats that app?
Post by: monami on January 09, 2008, 10:02:57 AM

i have to put my tower back together. does it work with non dos disks? also how many disks can you load at once? and does this end the need to install games? thanks.

Title: Re: whats that app?
Post by: Piru on January 09, 2008, 10:05:09 AM

This thing only lets you mount the disk images. It does not let you boot games from the mounted images.

If you want to run games, look into WHDLoad.

Title: Re: whats that app?
Post by: motorollin on January 09, 2008, 10:08:32 AM

As for non-DOS disks, I think it will mount them, but they will show up as non-DOS, so won't be very useful to you. As Piru said, if you want to boot a non-DOS game then either run it from floppy, or install with WHDLoad.

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moto

Title: Re: whats that app?
Post by: monami on January 09, 2008, 10:14:42 AM

thats a real shame. that made me a little excited! i think i'm fed up of using adf blitzer and floppies that always seem to be bad. i take it the minimig boots images?
and i guess whdload still doesn't like the files on back2the roots... :-(

Title: Re: whats that app?
Post by: monami on January 09, 2008, 10:23:36 AM

i think a new app is called for. "adfboot."

Title: Re: whats that app?
Post by: Piru on January 09, 2008, 10:33:57 AM

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i think a new app is called for. "adfboot."

It would not work. Most demos and games poke the hardware in their trackloader routines.

Anyway, there already is "adfboot", sort of: Just mount RAD and copy the adf on it. Boot.

As you'll find out, most games won't load from RAD (the bootblock loads, but soon after the game will attempt to load rest of the tracks from the DF0, resulting in error or crash).

Title: Re: whats that app?
Post by: monami on January 09, 2008, 10:37:49 AM

there used to be a uae for amiga 68k. did it make use of adf image side of things? maybe i could use that. i can't seem to find it anywhere.

Title: Re: whats that app?
Post by: Piru on January 09, 2008, 10:49:59 AM

UAE on classic amiga is way too slow to be usable. But yes, it uses adfs for the floppy emulation.