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Disk Imaging for poserity sake

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Geo

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Dec 22, 2010, 1:14:24 AM12/22/10

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Hi All,

I have almost finished imaging all my Amiga SW. It has only taken 2 years of
an d on 8-)

I am down to my last few disks which was from my AMAX and Transformer
emulators.
I was just wondering if anyone has some idea's on how I can image the actual
MAC and IBM DOS disk's from within AmigaOS?

I tried just making ADF's of them, and as expected it was a big FAIL. 8-)

I had thought that maybe I could make ADF's if I used crossdos for IBM disks
and a MAC equivalent of crossdos (if it exists) for the MAC disks, to enable
new compatible devices?

Thanks for any ideas 8-)

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Ross Vumbaca

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Jan 23, 2011, 9:15:48 AM1/23/11

On 22/12/2010 17:14, Geo wrote:

> I have almost finished imaging all my Amiga SW. It has only taken 2 years of
> an d on 8-)
>
> I am down to my last few disks which was from my AMAX and Transformer
> emulators.
> I was just wondering if anyone has some idea's on how I can image the actual
> MAC and IBM DOS disk's from within AmigaOS?
>
> I tried just making ADF's of them, and as expected it was a big FAIL. 8-)
>
> I had thought that maybe I could make ADF's if I used crossdos for IBM disks
> and a MAC equivalent of crossdos (if it exists) for the MAC disks, to enable
> new compatible devices?
>
> Thanks for any ideas 8-)

You can't make ADFs of non-Amiga disks, and even if you could, it
wouldn't work in an emulator because ADF does not emulate at that low a
level, it only emulates at the block level (where it expects Amiga
format). I don't think crossdos would work, because I think it runs on
top of trackdisk, but the program to create ADFs calls upon trackdisk
directly (not the file system). Even if it somehow worked, it would
never mount in an emulator..

To image a PC disk or a MAC disk, you're best off using tools for those
platforms, i.e use 'dd' or 'rawwrite'
(http://www.chrysocome.net/rawwrite) to image your PC disks, and
whatever a MAC uses for a MAC (although you'll probably have to run an
emulator to do that!).

Regards,

Ross..

Geo

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Feb 10, 2011, 1:47:59 AM2/10/11

To: Ross Vumbaca
Re: Re: Disk Imaging for poserity sake
By: Ross Vumbaca to aus.computers.amiga on Mon Jan 24 2011 01:15:48

Thanks Ross 8-)

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