What about .ADF?

[mrknight]

I'm in the process to back up my original floppes as .ADF and so far so good. The headache is about to start with those games that have a copy protection.

1. How exact are .ADF copies of the real floppies? If I make an. ADF of a copy protected floppy, will I be able to mount this .ADF in WinUAE and will it will still work? I'm pretty sure I can't write a copy protected .ADF back to a floppy but if I'm able to run it in WinUAE or a ADF-floppy simulator I'm happy.

2. Is there are good programs that are able to mount a .ADF as a floppy from either the console or WB GUI? I have heaps of FAST RAM is that is needed.

[mrknight]

Seems like Kryoflux is a neat solution, but quite expensive. And the  drive you are using must be able to read beyond track 80 since some copy  protection schemes are using these tracks for storing data. I don't  know how common or uncommon it is for drives to be able to do this. It  seems Kryoflux is using regular PC floppy drives.

.IPF seems to  be supported by the version of WinUAE I'm using. That's good. But I need  to find a way to mount them on a real Amiga.

Are there any  differences between Amiga and PC floppy drivers? Except that Amiga  usually are DD and PC HD. The Amiga floppy controller is much better  that the PC controller but this controller shoudln't be on the actual  drive but on the mobo. Is the cable interface the same of Amiga and PC?

[mrknight]

I think this statement is debatable.

I didn't mean better as such but I didn't find a better word when I wrote it. The Amiga controller is more flexible and allows you to do more low level stuff compared to a PC controller. That's why you can read PC floppies on Amiga, but not the opposite, despite being coded differently.