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Title: Disc conversion
Post by: johnfin on October 05, 2010, 07:20:41 PM

How hard is it to convert amiga game discs to ibm disc images without the use of amiga equipment?

Title: Re: Disc conversion
Post by: CSixx on October 05, 2010, 07:38:57 PM

You can convert Amiga disk's to Amiga disk images with either a real Amiga, or a hardware solution on PC's such as the Catweasel.
http://www.jschoenfeld.com/products/catweasel_e.htm

Title: Re: Disc conversion
Post by: johnfin on October 05, 2010, 09:20:21 PM

Is hardware the only way? ie is there software that can do it?

Title: Re: Disc conversion
Post by: Piru on October 05, 2010, 09:51:45 PM

Quote from: johnfin;583070

How hard is it to convert amiga game discs to ibm disc images without the use of amiga equipment?

If you by "ibm disc images" mean ADF, then this is the cheapest solution for creating them without any amiga hardware:

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adfread 1.1 (24.12.2006)
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Adfread will allow you to create ADF floppy disk images from regular
Amiga disks using standard PC hardware. It uses same method as Disk2FDI
but is compatible with Windows 2000 and newer.

Requirements:

- Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista
- PC mainboard must have hardware support for 2 floppy drives
  Unfortunately most modern PC mainboards don't have B: drive motor
  and select signals connected. MB is compatible if you can configure
  both A: and B: drives in BIOS. (usually..)
- 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

Changes from 1.0 to 1.1:

- Improved internal disk operations
- Adfread can be run multiple times and only damaged sectors are
  retried (uses <name of adf>.status file to store sector status
  information)
- Small fixes and update
You can download adfread from http://www.winuae.net/frames/download.html

As you may have noticed it won't work for copy protected game disks.

Title: Re: Disc conversion
Post by: scuzzb494 on October 05, 2010, 11:08:25 PM

discs for the CD32 or disks for floppy based systems ? Never mix your disks with your discs... could really muck up your CD drive :)

Title: Re: Disc conversion
Post by: johnfin on October 06, 2010, 02:09:21 PM

I just want to convert some of my amiga games to images so that I can run them on the uae program. Anyone here done that?

Title: Re: Disc conversion
Post by: ElPolloDiabl on October 06, 2010, 02:32:34 PM

The cheap solution: Search online for "Amiga ADF" or "Amiga Game" and if you have the physical disk you are entitled to a free digital version in my opinion.

Title: Re: Disc conversion
Post by: spirantho on October 06, 2010, 06:42:11 PM

Quote from: johnfin;583240

I just want to convert some of my amiga games to images so that I can run them on the uae program. Anyone here done that?

The only way to do that is by using a Catweasel (hardware) under AmigaOS 4, I'm afraid.