Floppy drive emulation ====================== E-UAE emulates up to four floppy drives. Standard PC floppy drives cannot read Amiga floppies, so floppy disks are currently supported as image files (support for Catweasel hardware, a floppy controller which can read Amiga floppies - and other unusual disk formats - will be added in a future version). E-UAE supports a number of floppy image formats, optionally compressed by gzip or packed inside a Zip archive. ADF --- The classic floppy image format for UAE, a plain raw image of the disk's formatted contents. DMS --- DMS was a popular disk image cruncher. E-UAE can transparently read DMS images. FDI --- FDI is a floppy image format used by the Disk2FDI tool. See http://www.oldskool.org/disk2fdi. IPF --- IPF is the floppy image format employed by the CAPS project (see http://caps-project.org/). A suitable plug-in, downloadble from the CAPS web site, must be installed on the host system to allow IPF images to be used. (At the time of writing, the plug-in is available for only x86 and PPC Linux hosts and AmigaOS hosts.) Creating blank ADF images ========================= On Unix-like platforms, a blank floppy image can be created as follows. To create a standard 3.5" DD image, use: dd if=/dev/zero of=blank.adf count=1760 To create a 3.5" HD image, use: dd if=/dev/zero of=blank.adf count=3520
