Can PC read Amiga disks?

Amiga floppy disks cannot be read on PCs without installing additional hardware such as a special floppy disk controller or a second floppy drive. There is no software-only solution to read Amiga disks on a PC. Amiga Explorer is included with Amiga Forever.

What replaced the floppy disk?

CDs
Throughout the early 2000s, CDs replaced floppy disks as the go-to data storage solution but as hard drives became less expensive and the Internet flourished, CDs also declined.

Are floppy disks still used?

The floppy disk symbol is still used by software on user-interface elements related to saving files, such as the release of Microsoft Office 2019, even though the physical floppy disks are largely obsolete, making it a skeuomorph.

What was before floppy disk?

Cassette Recorder Even floppy disk drives were rare at the time. When you turned the computer off, you’d lose your data, unless you had something to store it on. The solution that the first PC makers came up with was to use a cassette recorder.

What’s the format of the Amiga disk file?

Before it was known as ADF, it was used in commercial game production, backup and disk virtualization. ADF is a track-by-track dump of the disk data as read by the Amiga operating system, and so the “format” is really fixed-width AmigaDOS data tracks appended one after another and held in a file.

Where can I get floppy disks of Amiga games?

The Amiga Forever Game Downloads page includes a variety of sites hosting disk images of famous Amiga games, as well as other software. Whenever you copy data from one medium or computer to another, verify the integrity of the copy. For example, you can use a tool like DirDiff (switch off the Quick option) to double-check the data.

How to create an ADF disk image on an Amiga?

You can create ADF disk image files of your Amiga floppy disks on the Amiga itself, by using the Transdisk tool, which is included with Amiga Forever. The command line syntax is: where “RAM:001.adf” is a sample destination file name.

Why is the Amiga diskcopy command not working?

If the Amiga DiskCopy command cannot copy a disk, it is likely that the creation of the ADF disk image file will also fail to produce a working result. For archival purposes, you may want to create a disk image in DMS format (DMS supports a few simple copy protection schemes), if possible.