I hate ADF's :(

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Just a 2:30am rant here, what %@%@ idiots decided it was a good idea to distribute software as ADF's? Now I gotta go hunt down a bunch of floppy disks, cross my fingers and pray to all the gods that I can write information to them without hitting any bad spots on crummy 20+ year old media, only to then read it back in to run the hard drive installer... that's included on the disk? Would it be so hard to just distribute software as an LHA file that could easily be unarchived and installed?

Is there any kind of *easy* utility that will mount ADF files into ram:, just for the purpose of installing them correctly? I've had zero luck finding one.

I never liked ADF format. Never. And if I never see another ADF format file again it'll be too soon.

#middleofthenight_rant :laugh1:

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

So you know what?  After all my bitching and complaining, I just went ahead and dug out a stack of 20-year-old blank disks that I got with one of my parts hauls a few months ago, and just burned the ADF's to disk.  I tried mounting RAD: but the UnArc utility included with 3.9 only gives me options to write to DF0-DF3, and everything else seemed way more complicated than it needs to be.

Granted, I had to burn 10 copies to get three working disks, and had to copy a few files off of each copy of each disk to get around all the media errors, but eventually I got it to work.  And now I am able to relive my childhood of playing MegaBall on my Amiga.

PS - did that game get faster or did I just get old?  :roflmao: