Amiga Hard Disk Image Download

[Albert Phelps]

You will need a copy of the Kickstart ROM and Workbench disk images, version 3.0 or 3.1. This is still under copyright, and at least the Workbench images can be bought from amigaforever.com. They can also be found on several places on the Internet, as usual DuckDuckGo is your friend.



Amiga Hard Disk Image Download

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Hard disk images for Classic WB can be found at classicwb.abime.net. I used the LITE version for the Amiga 1200, but for an Amiga 600 you probably want the 68K version.


After the copying is done, press F12 again to go into settings, and remove the System.hbf image from the hard disks. You should now only have your Compact Flash card left. Reset the virtual machine, and you should hopefully boot back into Classic Workbench.


When generating an HDF file, we just create a blank image of a fixed size. Think about how much space you will need for your virtual harddisk, bearing in mind that an Amiga floppy disk will maximum hold 880 KB, and the harddisk also needs to hold a Workbench installation.


Now, let's boot up Workbench 1.3 and install it onto the virtual hard drive. During this process, keep the WinUAE settings to their most compatible. Adjusting CPU speed or disk speed can result in errors.


With the upcoming Amiga Mini on the horizon, this image could well be the ultimate solution for the console if the machine supports the use of hard disk images. On that note, they are still available for pre-order on Amazon as below


Firstly thank you for this awesome pack. I have managed to get it working on my MacBook Air M2 using FS-UAE however I would prefer to use the more up to date Amiberry, unfortunately as far as I can tell it doest support img hard drive images. I have tried renaming to hdf but no joy.


The downloadable Floppy & Hard Disk Image Pack contains 16 floppy disk images (ADF files) and 2 hard disk images (HDF files), which make it possible to boot and set up any Classic Amiga model (including the Amiga 1000, 3000 and 4000T).


Important: the downloadable Floppy & Hard Disk Image Pack does not contain physical media. An Amiga computer or dedicated PC hardware are required to write the images to Amiga floppy disks or other media. The floppy disk image files are also suitable for use in floppy drive emulators (Cortex, DTX200, EMUFFD, Gotek, HxC, Mark II, etc.), which can be used to replace an Amiga floppy disk drive.






So, you've got a shiny new / yellowed old Commodore A590 sidecard hard disk and RAM expansion for your beloved Amiga 500 or 500+. Excellent, they are lovely little bits of kit and can really enhance your Amiga experience.


But how to set it up? You can try juggling with disk images and such, or you can prep a virtual harddisk in WinUAE then either write that to an SD Card or actual harddisk via something like 'dd' if using Linux, or some equivalent for Windows. If you have a SCSI2SD then you can even mount the SD card directly in WinUAE as if it were a virtual harddisk.


BTW, the image created with dd went fine, no errors showing, and the entire disk seems to have been duplicated.

Can I be confident that this is a good sign that the HDD is not physically damaged (and the file rescue is a matter of software tweaking) ?


I am wondering if these days there could be some easy way to make downloaded Amiga games to work on real Amiga. I checked some google results, but all were around ten years old and needed a hard disk for Amiga or something similar not too easy for everyone.


I dont have hard disk, my Amiga 500 originally has 512Kb and I have half mega extra memory with memory on/off switch in my Amiga, but I think extra memory didnt work anymore when I powered up my Amiga many years ago.


-HxC SD floppy. Replace your Amiga's floppy with this device. Put ADF images on the SD card (I think you have to run a program to translate them from ADF to a different format, but I'm sure that's easy). Plug SD card into device. Select disk image with LCD and buttons.


If you're Amiga 500 has crossdos (or something similar), you can take the image on the PC, split it into 2 files. Place it one a PC 720k formatted disk (1 piece at a time, as the Amiga floppy image is over 720k). Usually this involves copying it to RAM: on the Amiga, then appending (joining) the second piece so you have the complete image in RAM: on the Amiga. Then you write it to the floppy.


I used to use Amiga Explorer along with a proper serial cable to write disks; it was fairly slow but it worked. You do have to be careful about the disk images you use though as I encountered a few that had problems on an actual system. I've since switched to using an HxC and I've never looked back.


First, I would like to point out, that I have had my Amiga 500 since the Golden Days, so I am not selling it or throwing it away. Second, I am not willing to buy Amiga 600 or any other bigger model either. You lovers of bigger and better Amiga models are free to love your machines, but Amiga 500 is the only "true" Amiga for me. So the solution must be found for my Amiga 500. And no, I am not going to rip Amiga disk drive away from my Amiga just to add some hard drive. I want to keep my Amiga same. :)


The pc and msx both use the same format for the disk 720kb. The controller and floppy hardware is exact the same. The amiga uses 880kb formated disks. The controller hardware is not compatible. The amiga can read 720kb disks, but the pc can't read 880kb disksdue to the hardware.


To recap: insert Amiga drive, use parted in bytes mode to get partition offset, setup loop device at that offset, mount loop device. Not as simple as it should be, but hey: it works. This also works, interestingly enough, on disk images: create a backup of your Amiga drive with dd and you can then mount partitions directly from the backup rather than the real drive.


Setting up the Raspberry Pi for use with the RaSCSI hardware is very straightforward. Especially so since the maintainers of the project provide a pre-configured image that can be written to a micro-SD card directly. To find the latest image go to the project's releases page, which will have the most recent release at the top. Scroll down to the "assets" section. Use a PC to download the large zip file (usually just over 580MB in size) and then use something like Etcher to write the image to a micro-SD card.


Clicking the link will bring up a new page where a choice can be made from a number of profiles for existing hard drives. Each of these profiles will emulate an existing hard drive as close as possible. To keep things simple I chose the DEC RZ28M drive since a size of 2GB should be compatible with most Amiga controllers. Firmware and drivers will use 32 bits numbers and for unsigned integers that gives a range from 0 to 4.29 GB. However, if signed integers were used instead then the range is from -2.15 GB to 2.15 GB and this could lead to data corruption for anything larger than 2.15 GB, hence my 2 GB choice of disk size.


The new, empty, hard drive provided by the RaSCSI first needs to be partitioned and then formatted. How this is done depends on the SCSI controller. In my case I will need to run the "SCSIInstall" tool that can be found on the Multi-Evolution install disk. This tool will partition the hard drive, format the partitions, and finally copy the contents of my favourite Workbench disk to the first partition on the hard drive. At the end it reboots the Amiga so that it can boot from the hard drive image for the very first time.


The Multi-Evolution install disk also contains the DiskPerf program, originally from Fish disk number 187. The program executes a number of basic performance tests and then prints the result. I have run the test with the RaSCSI using the Raspberry Pi Zero 2, but also with the RaSCSI using an old Raspberry Pi 1B+. This 1B+ was the Pi I used to set everything up initially and only switched to the Zero 2 at a later stage. For comparison I have also run the test with the Quantum LPS52 hard drive that was always used with this system. The RaSCSI software on the Pi is the December 2021 release.


Most of the values are either the same or in the same ballpark, with the only outlier being the number of files created per second on the Quantum LPS52 hard disk. This can be easily explained by the fact that this hard disk has a lot of files on it already, with the free space likely being quite fragmented. But since this is my old hard drive from back in the day I'm not prepared to either clear the drive or to defrag it.


Using the RaSCSI makes my Amiga 500 suddenly nice and quiet now that the old noisy Quantum is no longer part of the setup. Being able to create new disk images over the WiFi adds new flexibility as does backing up and restoring disk images over WiFi. It is also possible to upload a CD-ROM ISO image to emulate a CD-ROM drive, which is something I will give a go at a later date. In use the system does not feel slower (nor faster) than the original setup with the Quantum, which was always fast enough for me.


Also, once you configure your large drive in this fashion, if you ever boot from a floppy disk, you will probably not have access to any partitions that start or span the 4GB point in the hard drive storage space, unless you are able to add the scsi module patch described later in this tutorial to the boot floppy.


When I got the drive, assembled it, and was ready to use it, I decided I would try out the installation of large disk support through the use of the WinUAE emulator. I REALLY love this emulator as it easily supports hardware hard drives, mounting them as if they were installed in an actual Amiga. I had an IDE to USB adapter, so I hooked the mSATA drive to my PC and mounted it as a hard drive in WinUAE, like so:

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