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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?
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| 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.
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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.
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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
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| 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.
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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. 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
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Maybe take a squizz at AROS.
  
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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
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Makes for interesting reading. This way you can use your actual floppies in your PC.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CatWeasel
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