claus
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Helo i have an old amiga i haven't been playing on it for a while, because many of my game disc doesn't work anymore. I was then wondering if it's possible to make a disc with a amiga rom from my pc, for use on my amiga 500.
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there is some way u can do it but i think u need extra device, as amiga 500 discs only format to 880k where as pc is higher, u can do it with A1200 but its loads of hastle, compacting games then uncompacting to memory then back on to disc, just use winUAE for windows its near perfect Amiga Emulator
don
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Wrong! The Amiga disk drive is indeed PC compatible, if you got the right software (I remember there was something supplied with workbench 3.1, can't recall the name though, that allowed you to read MS-Dos formatted disks (DD only with the standard disk drives). So if you got that tool, you would be theoretically able to copy disk images (*.dmg or something?) to amiga and decompact them to real amiga disks.cntux posted on Aug 19 2004 at 04:19 PM said:
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Iorgy77
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You can get a serial null-modem cable and hook the Amiga 500 up to your PC. Then transfer the .adf files to your amiga and write them to floppy disks. The software I use is Amiga Explorer because it works with workbench 1.3.
"as amiga 500 discs only format to 880k "
Um... I thought Amiga used Double Density disks. Which only go up to 720K.
[edit] you're right, the amiga formatted them to 880... how odd...
Apparently the Acorn Archimedes could format HD disks to 1.6MB too.
Um... I thought Amiga used Double Density disks. Which only go up to 720K.
[edit] you're right, the amiga formatted them to 880... how odd...
Apparently the Acorn Archimedes could format HD disks to 1.6MB too.
don
AWSMOE!
...which go only up to 720k when formatted as standard MS-Dos disk.taras posted on Aug 19 2004 at 05:10 PM said:
Amiga formatted those disks to 880kb. There have even been MS-Dos programs that could format disks to a slightly higher capacity.
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This is slightly interesting related topic http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=14472
Personally I own Catweasel, which allows me to read & write practically every known floppy format out there - from early 80s up to date. I think Catweasel is also available for PCs.
Personally I own Catweasel, which allows me to read & write practically every known floppy format out there - from early 80s up to date. I think Catweasel is also available for PCs.
