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Reading Amiga Floppy on PC (Windows)
« on: November 10, 2009, 07:55:09 AM »
I am not if many people are aware of this, but there is a program called ADFRead which you can download here http://www.winuae.net/files/adfread-1.1.zip which lets you make .adf images of Amiga floppy disks on a normal PC (does not need a catweasel).

Obviously, the next question would be, what are the possibilities of an ADFWrite happening!
 

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Re: Reading Amiga Floppy on PC (Windows)
« Reply #1 on: November 10, 2009, 07:57:15 AM »
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what are the possibilities of an ADFWrite happening!

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Re: Reading Amiga Floppy on PC (Windows)
« Reply #2 on: November 10, 2009, 08:16:13 AM »
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/takes catweasel out of the bin again
 

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Re: Reading Amiga Floppy on PC (Windows)
« Reply #3 on: November 10, 2009, 03:40:59 PM »
If I remember correctly (which is not guaranteed), that program requires 2 floppies and a compatible motherboard.  As it was explained to me, there are bit that can't be read or written by the OS, but those bits can be captured as they fly by (from the Amiga disk to the junk floppy in the second drive) in the hardware, and from there, reconstituted into an ADF file.

I know, weird.  So, I believe the answer was, not writes.  Can't be done, sorry.

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Then again, those of us who were around at the time remember that the answer to a PC reading Amiga disks was "Can't be done, sorry", until this came out.  ;-)
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Amiga 500 w/ 2M CHIP and 8M FAST RAM, DCTV, AEHD floppy, and 1084S.
Amiga 1000 w/ 4M FAST RAM, DUAL CF hard drives, external floppy.