AmigaPlaceholder:Creating Game Backups

There are multiple options for creating backups of your own Amiga disks for the Commodore Amiga.

Greaseweazle

Greaseweazle allows for reading and writing from a majority of supported disk formats.

The Greaseweazle supports the following image formats:

• ADF (Commodore Amiga, 880k and 1760k)
• ADF, ADS, ADM, ADL (Acorn ADFS)
• DSD, SSD (Acorn DFS)
• DSK, EDSK (Amstrad CPC, Sinclair ZX Spectrum +3, SAM Coupé)
• D64 (Commodore 64 1541 GCR)
• D71 (Commodore 64 1571 GCR)
• D81 (Commodore 64 1581 MFM)
• HDM, XDF (NEC PC-98)
• HFE (HxC Floppy Emulator RAW)
• IMD (IBM PC)
• IMG, IMA, DSK (IBM FM/MFM RAW)
• MGT (Sinclair ZX Spectrum DISCiPLE/+D, SAM Coupé)
• MSA, ST (Atari ST)
• RAW (Kyroflux RAW stream)
• SCP (SuperCard Pro RAW)
• SF7 (Sega SF-7000)

For more information, check out the Greaseweazle page.

DrawBridge

The DrawBridge is an open-source and low-cost solution for building an Amiga-compatible floppy disk reader/writer for use within Windows only, requiring only an Arduino board and an FTDI adapter.

For more information, check out the DrawBridge page.

X-Copy

X-Copy Professional was a commercial product developed by Cachet Software for the Amiga. It was well-known for replicating most (but not all) games with on-disk copy protection, and it became synonymous for being the most pirated software distributed throughout various BBSes and scene group compilations.