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RE: Anyway of playing Amiga games on a pc by using the original floppy disks?

bigb — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:06:03 GMT

Makes for interesting reading. This way you can use your actual floppies in your PC.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CatWeasel

RE: Anyway of playing Amiga games on a pc by using the original floppy disks?

wyliecoyoteuk — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:43:44 GMT

Actually, Amiga floppies are physically different to a PC floppy in terms of formatting.
Amigas can read PC disks, but not vice versa.

http://www.amigaforever.com/kb/3-118.html

RE: Anyway of playing Amiga games on a pc by using the original floppy disks?

darrelljon — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:51:06 GMT

Maybe take a squizz at [url=http://aros.sourceforge.net/]AROS[/url].

RE: Anyway of playing Amiga games on a pc by using the original floppy disks?

johnbarry — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:06:52 GMT

[quote][b]compaq (10/01/2008)[/b][hr]you can actually do that.

some of the emulators and i had a few Amigas (jason knows lol) will allow you to run the games off floppy.

the floppys are the same floppys pcs use just in amiga language.

[/quote]

That's interesting Compaq, although you say games will the particular emulator run just Amiga based files on floppy disks. If so which emulator do you use. I never got to read my Amiga floppys on PC, even after converting to ADF for winuae.

http://forum.micromart.co.uk/Topic191245-20-1.aspx#bm196496

RE: Anyway of playing Amiga games on a pc by using the original floppy disks?

compaq — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:38:17 GMT

you can actually do that.

some of the emulators and i had a few Amigas (jason knows lol) will allow you to run the games off floppy.

the floppys are the same floppys pcs use just in amiga language.

thing is how good are your original floppys? they dont last for ever.

RE: Anyway of playing Amiga games on a pc by using the original floppy disks?

mattyspurs — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:36:17 GMT

oh right, i thought i needed to run an emulator, then i could put the disks into my pc and play them that way.... woo ive learned something new for today lol

RE: Anyway of playing Amiga games on a pc by using the original floppy disks?

Jason — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:40:53 GMT

If you already own a copy of the game (and also the machine's ROM set, which clearly you do), there should be no real problem in simply downloading the ROM file for it and running it in an emulator. No need to monkey about with converting old disks.

RE: Anyway of playing Amiga games on a pc by using the original floppy disks?

johnbarry — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:24:06 GMT

You can use winuae to emulate your PC

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=38129

This however uses ADF files, plenty downloadable?

It would be getting your PC to read Amiga disks, the games I think would need to be converted to ADF, although I have never had much success with it. But then they were files not games.

I think there is a site or even someone in the forum? who can convert your games to ADF to play in winuae.

Anyway of playing Amiga games on a pc by using the original floppy disks?

mattyspurs — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:52:39 GMT

cleaned my room up over xmas and ive got 2 Amiga 600's ontop of my wardrobe which i dropped grrr and loads of keys broke off. I know one didnt work but i cant be bothered to set them up + i dont know where all the cables are but i do know where the games are ;)

Is there a way i can get them to play on my pc instead of the amiga?

Would i need an emulator of some sort?