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Offline A4000_Mad

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Re: Best and easiest way to backup my amiga games
« on: June 01, 2007, 06:05:01 PM »
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would it be a case of buying another floppy disk drive? and perfroming a clone between the two drives?


When using two drives myself I also connect a gadget called a Syncro Express by Datel Electronics between the Amiga and the external floppy drive. I've never found a disk that it won't backup for me :-)



Doubler is also pretty good for backing up your disks and can use just the one drive to do it. But as moto says they must not be copy protected  :-)



As orange says some of your disks may turn into DMS files. Packmaster is one program you could use for those :-)



And then there are ADF files too. ADF-Blitzer is dead easy to use as basically you just click on READ to create an ADF file of the floppy disk in the drive, or WRITE to unpack an ADF file onto a floppy disk :-)



Indeed the suggested WHDLoad in posts above is probably the best way of *preserving* your disks as theoretically you should never have to use them again. I use the great WHDLoad installers to get my games into hard drive and then compress the whole games drawer as an LHA file. This file can then be moved between your Amigas and unpacked to transfer the game. Hence, there is no need to use your floppy disks :pint:

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Re: Best and easiest way to backup my amiga games
« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2007, 12:03:56 PM »
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philtomo wrote:
how easy is it to get hold of a copy of Syncro Express?


Difficult I should imagine, but I've sent you a PM with the e-mail address of someone who had one for sale quite recently :-)


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