Divarin
Veteran Member
Hi all. I apologize in advance if this has been asked and answered a million times in the past. I did do some searching of this forum (as well as just searching the net in general).
I just acquired an Amiga 500. I don't really have much experience with Amigas. I am looking for the easiest way to create floppy disks from disk images for it.
I have found different techniques which involve arduinos, parallel cables, serial null modem cables etc.
Of course Google doesn't aways give you the most recent results first so there may be newer, easier, ways that I didn't find.
For Atari STs its pretty easy, I have a dos program that can just write .st images straight to ds/dd disks but it looks like Amiga disks are not going to be quite as simple.
Here's what I have to work with:
A p2-300 with a floppy drive, serial port, parallel port, and can run either dos or windows 98 depending on what cf card I put in it.
A 486 with a floppy drive.
A spare internal pc floppy drive.
A gotek that I pulled out of an Atari ST. I don't want to use the gotek permanently, I'd like to make floppy disks, but if the gotek can be used to get things going ...
A windows 7 machine with USB, serial and parallel but no floppy drives.
A couple of spare raspberry pi's
I just acquired an Amiga 500. I don't really have much experience with Amigas. I am looking for the easiest way to create floppy disks from disk images for it.
I have found different techniques which involve arduinos, parallel cables, serial null modem cables etc.
Of course Google doesn't aways give you the most recent results first so there may be newer, easier, ways that I didn't find.
For Atari STs its pretty easy, I have a dos program that can just write .st images straight to ds/dd disks but it looks like Amiga disks are not going to be quite as simple.
Here's what I have to work with:
A p2-300 with a floppy drive, serial port, parallel port, and can run either dos or windows 98 depending on what cf card I put in it.
A 486 with a floppy drive.
A spare internal pc floppy drive.
A gotek that I pulled out of an Atari ST. I don't want to use the gotek permanently, I'd like to make floppy disks, but if the gotek can be used to get things going ...
A windows 7 machine with USB, serial and parallel but no floppy drives.
A couple of spare raspberry pi's