Best and easiest way to backup my amiga games

[amigakid]

Gotta love AOrg and the helpful people here:)

[amigadave]

amigakid wrote:
Gotta love AOrg and the helpful people here:)

Absolutely!!!

[Piru]

@amigakit

In fairness it should be pointed out that it can only read/write regular disk, not copy protected ones.

[motrucker]

Back to the copy protection wars... One of the hardware/software tools is best, such as Syncro Express is your best bet.
Easier to find, and good for older games is Maverick. It is an old parameter copier.
WHDload may be your best all around choice though. It makes the games MUCH better to use with faster loading/updating times (and sometimes even new features!), and allowing you to store your disks safely away.

[spirantho]

It seems that what you want to do is to back up your disks to images on your hard disk, so when your disk goes bad, you can write the image back again. You can indeed use Synchro Express and X-Copy Pro and other programs to copy from disk to disk but what happens when you run out of disks...? Try finding some new DS DD disks these days... and the old ones are just as unreliable as the disks you're trying to back up. Plus a lot of disks still won't copy.

You can use ADF tools to back up non-copy protected disks, but that leaves 95% of all games that you can't image. ADF files do not contain enough information for copy protected disks.

For some better news, though, I suggest you take a look at http://www.softpres.org/ as what you want to do is exactly what these guys are doing. However, you can't yet use their images yourself. I'm not sure exactly how useful it'll be to you therefore... but it does mean the data on your precious disks is safely stored somewhere.

[orange]

spirantho wrote:
I'm not sure exactly how useful it'll be to you therefore... but it does mean the data on your precious disks is safely stored somewhere.

 :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

I sure am glad all gold bars are *safe* somewhere, like in West Point, it doesn't matter if they aren't useful to me

[a1200]

The most famous hardware floppy sync device is the Cyclone, which worked with X-Copy. I think it was Amiga Retro Experience on eBay a few days ago who had one in perfect condition, with a Boxed version of X-Copy.

However, they reguarly appear on eBay, like:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Amiga-Blitz-External-Floppy-Drive-Cyclone-Dongle_W0QQitemZ160122029701QQihZ006QQcategoryZ98928QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

This one does not appear to have any plastic around the board, so you would have to be careful not to drop any metal onto it or say goodbye to your Amiga!

[a1200]

Another:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230138766701&indexURL=0&photoDisplayType=2#ebayphotohosting

[TjLaZer]

I have Synchro Express and Super Card Ami II and they both work great.  BUT you have to have a perfect set of drives for them to work.  I have a few external drives:  A 1010, CA-880 and RockTech drive and only the 1010 works to copy the disks.  You will also need an external drive for the hardware copiers.  The nice thing is these will copy virtually every disk!  I heard they can also copy Dragons Lair but I have not tried...

I recently got a cyclone and it did not work to good for me!

I got them all from ebay btw...

[6]

Howdy, Phil.

I was always able to copy copy-protected software with programs like Renegade, x-copy, Marauder and Raw Copy.  None appear on aminet, unfortunately. There may be other pd copy software.

Hey everybody, I have a Datel box.  Are you folks telling me that it is actually worth something?  It is the game breaker which was part of a haul I made several years ago off an old gamer.  Is that what you're talking about?  It is buried under an amigalanche in my closet.  Is it worth digging out?  I should probably send my cat companion Ra in first to see if there were any survivors.

be seeing you
6

[ra_cat]

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Welcome, Phil.

To 6: You're not sending me in there.

Ra

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