Now you can read Amiga floppies on a PC

[ricco32097]

What, I thought that was impossible...and to write data back to the discs too.

Then I saw this:

adfread 1.0 (31.03.2006)
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Adfread will allow you to create ADF floppy disk images from regular Amiga disks using standard PC hardware.

Requirements:

- Windows 2000/XP/2003
- BIOS support for 2 floppy drives
- 2 non-USB floppy drives installed on the same cable
- Regular format Amiga disks without any copy-protection
- A normal PC-formatted 1.44M floppy

[ricco32097]

...I might be slow and this might be old news for most. To me this is amazing...downloading it right now.

[Lonewolf10]

That's great..... except I don't have a PC.

Still for those with PC's, that must be great news. I know it's been possible for PC's to read Amiga disks for ages, but that was using a method that required loads of extra kit!


Regards,
Lonewolf10

[Piru]

Old news. About 5 years at least.

Cloanto: Reading Amiga Floppy Disks on PC

What, I thought that was impossible...and to write data back to the discs too.

Writing is not possible, only reading. For writing you need catweasel or similar hw solution.

[TazzyUK]

Shame that the image cant be read into Ram or a virtual drive (same thing)
Wouldn't need second drive then (plus it has to be on same data cable!)
Taz

[InTheSand]

TazzyUK wrote:
Wouldn't need second drive then (plus it has to be on same data cable!)

AFAIK, the software does some nasty things to the floppy disk controller - making use of various tricks that require a second drive to be physically connected, so unfortunately you'd still need the extra drive...

 - Ali

[Piru]

Shame that the image cant be read into Ram or a virtual drive (same thing)

Uh, this is exactly what the program does. Once it has loaded the image it writes it to a ADF. Then you can do whatever you like with the ADF, mount it as virtual floppy or whatever.