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Title: adf mounter
Post by: jpm2901 on May 20, 2009, 09:46:24 PM

hi all,
just wondered if anybody knows of an application that can mount a memory resident (fast ram) pseudo floppy drive (like alcohol does for an optical drive on the pc) on the amiga.the reason i ask is so i can convert dms files to it and run them without having to use real 3.5 disks all the time.many thanks.

Title: Re: adf mounter
Post by: x303 on May 20, 2009, 09:53:28 PM

I think you want something like this: http://aminet.net/disk/misc/radman.lha ???

x303 :D :D :D

Title: Re: adf mounter
Post by: Matt_H on May 20, 2009, 10:20:31 PM

For non-reset-resident stuff I use diskimage.device (http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/diskimage).
Very easy to swap "disks" in and out. From there, you could do a diskcopy to RAD: if you need to boot from something.

Not sure if radman is more direct, I haven't used it.

Title: Re: adf mounter
Post by: jpm2901 on May 20, 2009, 10:30:22 PM

thanks for the quick response.will try both, and let you know which worked best.

Title: Re: adf mounter
Post by: rare_j on May 20, 2009, 11:11:16 PM

I use statram for this - it's good.

http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/statram31

Title: Re: adf mounter
Post by: adolescent on May 20, 2009, 11:34:50 PM

Check out FMS (http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/fms_20).  It's a virtual floppy not an adf mounter, but it's worked well for me over the years.

To mount ADFs directly you can try ADF Device (http://bfugl.dk/Download.asp).  I've never tried this one myself so I can't speak to how well it works.