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.