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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Everblue on November 10, 2009, 07:55:09 AM

Title: Reading Amiga Floppy on PC (Windows)
Post by: Everblue on November 10, 2009, 07:55:09 AM

I am not if many people are aware of this, but there is a program called ADFRead which you can download here http://www.winuae.net/files/adfread-1.1.zip which lets you make .adf images of Amiga floppy disks on a normal PC (does not need a catweasel).

Obviously, the next question would be, what are the possibilities of an ADFWrite happening!

Title: Re: Reading Amiga Floppy on PC (Windows)
Post by: Piru on November 10, 2009, 07:57:15 AM

Quote from: Nostromo;529023

what are the possibilities of an ADFWrite happening!

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Title: Re: Reading Amiga Floppy on PC (Windows)
Post by: Everblue on November 10, 2009, 08:16:13 AM

:(

/takes catweasel out of the bin again

Title: Re: Reading Amiga Floppy on PC (Windows)
Post by: desiv on November 10, 2009, 03:40:59 PM

If I remember correctly (which is not guaranteed), that program requires 2 floppies and a compatible motherboard.  As it was explained to me, there are bit that can't be read or written by the OS, but those bits can be captured as they fly by (from the Amiga disk to the junk floppy in the second drive) in the hardware, and from there, reconstituted into an ADF file.

I know, weird.  So, I believe the answer was, not writes.  Can't be done, sorry.

desiv

Then again, those of us who were around at the time remember that the answer to a PC reading Amiga disks was "Can't be done, sorry", until this came out.  ;-)