3.5 inch DD or HD disk questions

[ArthurDent]

Hi all,

I've downloaded some legal games from the Back2theRoots site, wich come in a .ADF format. I've transferred them from the PC to the Amiga succesfully, and have installed a program called ADFBlitzer to write the disks to floppy's.

However.. so far I can only extract to DD disks that I've formatted in my Amiga (880K). I'd like to be able to use HD disks, since they are more easy to come by. (The only DD disks I have left are from my ancient MSX system, and I like to keep those). I was hoping that by taping up the hole on the bottom-right corner the Amiga would think of the HD as a DD disk. This seems to work only partially: After formatting I get a nameless 880k formatted medium. However, when I use ADFBlitzer to restore a game, the disk becomes unrecognizable again.

So, here are my questions:

1. Is it possible to use HD disks in the Amiga, using the manner mentioned above or another way?
2. If not, does anybody know a good adress for DD disks, preferably in the Netherlands?

Thanks for any replies!

[ArthurDent]

Thanks both for your suggestions and insights!

@Orange: So what you're saying is taping HD-disks *might* work, but they are more unstable? One of the games I downloaded is indeed a NDOS game. It works when I unpack and boot it from a DD disk, but not when I do the same with a taped-off HD disk. Maybe the HD-disk was a bit faulty in the first place... Is there any point in me experimenting some more with it, or do you think all attempts are going to fail?

@Amiga1260: Thanks for the references, especially the compcity.nl one! It looks like I'll be doing some shopping in the future. :-) Not for one of those HD-drives though.. those things are indeed expensive!! :-o

[ArthurDent]

@Nex4060: But you're using one of those special HD-floppy-drives Amiga1260 mentioned, right? Not a standard Amiga DF0:-internal drive?

[ArthurDent]

Right, thanks again for your suggestions all!

I'll experiment some more with it. Maybe I'll have succes. I don't have a creditcard, so ordering DD-disks online might be a bit troublesome. If it works, only if for a while, using taped-over HD floppies might be a good solution for the time being.