writing an IPF to floppy disk

[alexh]

99% of the time it is not currently possible to write IPF images to disks no matter what CPU you have.

Neither the software nor the hardware exists to do it.

However some IPF images can be converted (using UAE) to ADF or Extended ADF and then written back to disks but not many.

P.S. What has WWarp got to do with IPF images?

[alexh]

Colani1200 wrote:
Um... what's the use of it then?

Emulation. Use with WHDload to make HD installs.

Colani1200 wrote:

alexh wrote:
However some IPF images can be converted (using UAE) to ADF or Extended ADF and then written back to disks but not many.

How?

You fire up WinUAE, boot from your emulated hard drive to workbench, insert your IPF image into DF0: and use one of the hundreds of ADF programs. I tend to use ADF Blitzer

Not sure if it is included with the WinUAE install so you might need to download the SPS user library from http://www.softpres.org to enable IPF support in WinUAE

[alexh]

You should point out that to do so it uses the PaSTi and SPS plugins and most of the credit should go to those guys.

Still very cool though. Forward thinking to add plugin support to your server.

When you can support PaSTi and IPF stand alone then it will be cool!

[alexh]

Jeff_HxC wrote:
Regarding the ipf format (and pasti), the standalone version already support it !
And Alexh the variable bitrate in track mode is not a trivial problem, so i think i deserve the credit ;-).

And if what you're saying is true then you'll get said credit.

If you understand how IPF works, can you document it? There are many ports of UAE to embedded platforms with no IPF user library. Xbox, Wii, PSP etc. You should be able to explain it so that we can create our own open source IPF plugin for other platforms.