Amiga Floppy Emulators

[alexh]

Megadrive never went on sale. Never did any protected formats at all.

HxC emulator is very expensive at approx £60. AFAIK the USB version can do almost any protected disks as the decoder runs on the host PC. Standalone SD one has limited support for IPF & Extended ADF.

Which Amiga have you got? The cheapest alternative for an A1200 is to fit an old lap-top 2.5" PATA HDD and use software to "emulate floppy drive". http://www.WHDload.de

[alexh]

If you don't already have one I think you'd be better spending your money on a second hand GVP HC8+ SCSI controller with 8Mbytes of RAM and a SCSI hard drive.

Should be able to get one for $50.

You could install WHDload and all the games onto the hard drive and have improved loading times and no messing about with converting floppy disk images or SD cards etc.

You'll struggle to do anything without access to a PC or a MAC. How are you going to transfer any files from the internet? Surely you've got access to one.

[alexh]

when I read people say it doesnt mount very well into the case -Who cares!

I do. A little thought and it would (and still could) fit as the replacement for any floppy drive.

The creator has listened though and has made some significant steps forward, especially on the Atari ST platform which no-longer needs the LCD screen. (Disk selection is done using the ST)