The work you have been doing for the Amiga community is mind blowing! You have single handedly created solutions for the age old disk issues and I can finally access my old gave save disks…Chapeau sir :)
Even though I have no use for this, I really like what you have created here. As always, keep up the good work - love to see these old systems and hardware being kept alive and getting the love they deserve 🙂
I remember as a kid I often used to ask my father whether we could load our C64 diskettes on his Pentium 200. Would have loved to see this being back then, so I am glad for everyone who can still make use of this i.E. indie devs :)
This is absolutely amazing! What a fantastic suite of applications - it looks so polished! I hope that others embrace this and add further format support as this could be the one stop shop for any kind of disk format, whether for PC, Amiga, ST, Acorn, music sampler etc.
I found my long lost supercard pro the other day! I also found my custom kryoflux scsi tower. Alongside the greaseweazles and drawbridge stuff I cannot wait to try this tomorrow. Rob you are a genius with this stuff :D
This is great. I do quite a few expos and always use real floppy discs, because.. that's the point! Discs are half the fun, for kids especially. It's getting harder to use real discs, but this + my greaseweasel will make it super quick to work with them on the fly. Thanks!
@@RobSmithDev If I had seen that software for sale, I wouldn't have hesitated to buy a copy. The Futurama "Shut up And Take My Money!" meme was stuck in my head throughout the video right up until you announced it was free 🎈
That is awesome! I've got boxes of Amiga and ST disks which I haven't looked at in years, I'll have to get a drive and give this a try, maybe I can finally make a set of Workbench disks for my Amiga 🙂
Back in the day there was a great Windos95 program called ADF Opus that was similar although it did not have as many features. I am delighted that you have brought interoperability tools into the modern era. Thank you for what you do. I also encourage you to make a Linux version.
Fantastic tool that I use for the unprotected Atari ST disks that I have in bulk in various boxes. One thing to add in your next update is that the file selector box has the cursor moved to the filename so that I can just type it in, without having to select that field?
@RobSmithDev When making a backup of a disk, the save option triggers the file selector. I'd like to be able to type the new filename gor saving but the focus/cursor isn't in the Filename field. You have tp select it with the mouse first, then you can start typing.
I’d say this is probably unlikely. This uses the same plugin that I wrote for WinUAE, so not really geared for actual professional level preservation, which is where they’d like to keep their devices being used and I totally understand that
Fantastic program. If you're still developing this software, I request adding support for .IMAGE files. It's essentially a Mac-only version of .IMG and they're a pain to open on Windows. edit: this was kind of a dumb suggestion because windows handles files differently than mac. if you can find a way to do this without corrupting the files then ill be impressed
It took 20+ years for someone to do this..... finally. Now to figure out how to integrate it with CiderPress II so that one can support reading and writing Macintosh and Apple II floppies.
I'll donate a 5.25 1.2M floppy drive for you for your work. I currently have 4K good formatted cleaned (surface) inside out 360 floppies. a hand full of 720k 1.44 and no 1.2M disks all ready to be writing on
Thanks for the offer. Since making that video I've already be donated a 5.25" drive, and I purchased a second so should be good for now, but thanks anyway
The biggest takeaway I got from your video is that Dokan is usable nowadays! Last time I tried it, it crashed Windows almost all the time and I gave up on ever doing anything useful with it. But that was quite a few years back. I had forgotten about it, so very pleased to see it has matured. Does it work with non-M$ C compilers? (Are LCC, TCC etc even still available for Windows? I guess I should look into those again too. I jut can't bring myself to use M$'s bloatware compiler installation...)
@@RobSmithDev Sorry for my dozy ramblings, but I seem to remember that one should only ever extract amiga lha files inside the amiga environment. The following is definitely worth researching as I may be wrong: If extracted on windows, A) the windows file handling cannot cope with certain characters and will strip them or mangle them, rendering the files unfindable in scripts on the amiga side. B) file attributes and protection bits are not all shared between the two systems so can again get stripped. or C) the tooltypes (from .info files) get sorta messed up - truncated or stripped or corrupted somehow. I don't have time right now to search down the forum posts that indicate these outcomes. Sorry! But I do remember that I personally had troubles with some WHDLoad files that had been unlha'd then rezipped on a PC... I'm definitely not the only one! :) This aminet tool specifically mentions the issue: aminet.net/package/util/arc/WHDArchiveExtractor.lha So my question was, does browsing, opening or editing amiga files in the pc explorer risk any of these similar problems? Hope this is helpful?
So internally it manages file names so they are safe for windows, but doesn’t alter their original name. the only time that would cause an issue is creating files windows side as you wouldn’t be able to create the weirder types. So yes extract LhA files Amiga side (unless I add a specific lha unarchiver thats safe) File attributes - yeah these are a pain although mostly left untouched unless you do something that may modify them As there’s no way to edit the .info files windows side it’s not an issue so shouldn’t be affected. I suspect what you’re talking about was crossdos rewriting these
this is exactly what I needed. however on your page, it mentions terrible USB floppy drives, will they work? because the software is 64-bit only and the only PC with an internal floppy drive is most certainly 32-bit only. should I buy a USB floppy drive or would I be wasting my money?
It only works with floppy drives connected via Drawbridge, Greaseweazle or Supercard Pro, so you don’t need a PC with the onboard floppy connector, and it wouldn’t use it if it was there. Any USB floppy drive you buy most likely is a recycled drive. They still advertise as new but they aren’t. Some are amazing, but some are just terrible.
I’ve now got two 5.25 drives and just working on this. To start with it will just be to support the current file systems supported but then after that I will maybe be adding something like C64 etc
@@RobSmithDev Hows the developing going? Getting it work with 5.25 isn't harder than 3.5? I have the site bookmarked, and checking it like a daily basis... :D
@@RobSmithDev I just put a FDD with Greaseweazle 4.1 into my new VM and Docker server system - apart from fans it's the only mechanical part in there, as all the storage is NVME. I'm planning on using this with Windows running in a VM, but I don't leave that running at all times. With linux support I'd be able to access it on one of the distros I keep permanently spun up. :) Thanks for a great release nonetheless. And again for Drawbridge which is also that cat's ass (dog's bollocks over there).
@@RobSmithDev it's the Sinclair QL file system. I know one of the emulators (Q-emulator) can read QL disks on a PC floppy (even USB) so it would likely not be that difficult. Perhaps I'll see if I can get the emulator's author to contact you.
I’m an Amiga (and a little C64) man through and through, but have recently picked up a BBC Master 128 and have found reasonable tools for working with disc images and can then load on BBC using Gotek/FF, but working with real discs is not so easy. So have to agree that DFS/ADFS support would be an awesome addition.
@@RobSmithDev yes, but I've had the devil's own job with multi-format disks. Some coverdisks had three formats on them. Though, I suspect that they expoited the ST's ability to work with fat format.
How have I only just discovered this?!? Excellent work, Rob! 🥰
Honestly doing the Lord's work for the retro community and for no monetary profit whatsoever. Absolutely stellar stuff! 👏👏👏
The work you have been doing for the Amiga community is mind blowing! You have single handedly created solutions for the age old disk issues and I can finally access my old gave save disks…Chapeau sir :)
Christmas has come early, wow, fantastic Rob :)
Wow! Rob, you have infinite rabbits in your hat! Incredible :D Congrats on the milestone!!
Even though I have no use for this, I really like what you have created here.
As always, keep up the good work - love to see these old systems and hardware being kept alive and getting the love they deserve 🙂
Thank you 😀
You're doing God's work here, I am in awe
Have the nightmares ended yet from the disco music? Good to have some good Atari ST people put this through it’s paces
Wanted a tool like this for ages! Thank you Rob! :)
Thanks, and I’ve never had a Super Thanks before, thank you 😃
This is amazing Rob! Very well done
Rob, can you please confirm whether you are infact a wizard?! Amazing work!!
Hahaha lol
Just incredible. There's no end to your talents
Mate, this is a game-changer. Great work!
I remember as a kid I often used to ask my father whether we could load our C64 diskettes on his Pentium 200.
Would have loved to see this being back then, so I am glad for everyone who can still make use of this i.E. indie devs :)
Maybe C64 disks will happen at some point, would be cool!
This is absolutely amazing! What a fantastic suite of applications - it looks so polished!
I hope that others embrace this and add further format support as this could be the one stop shop for any kind of disk format, whether for PC, Amiga, ST, Acorn, music sampler etc.
This looks awesome, cannot wait to try this.
WOW !! Yet more UTTERLY OUTSTANDING work again Rob.
This really is awesome.
Keep on making amazing vids, and take it easy mate.
:) thank you
Superb, why didnt anyone else think of this in the kast 30 years?! 🙂
WOW and WOW. Thanks Rob. This is wonderful!
Thanks for doing this Rob. I can finally get rid of the buggy ADFOpus.
Fantastic Rob, great to see it all fully working and available to download. Thank you!!!!
Absolutely amazing Rob! Wow
Amazing work
Thank you! Cheers!
Life just got a little bit easier. Nice one Rob.
This is the perfect solution for a very old and annoying problem. Thank you, thank you!
You sir, are a steely eyed amiga man!
you are a legend, this tool is amazing. thank you for your work!
I found my long lost supercard pro the other day! I also found my custom kryoflux scsi tower. Alongside the greaseweazles and drawbridge stuff I cannot wait to try this tomorrow. Rob you are a genius with this stuff :D
Wow! Very nice work!
Fantastic work Rob! I've been using an old PC with a Catweasel and 32bit Win7 to image disks up to now. This will be a gamechanger.
This is great. I do quite a few expos and always use real floppy discs, because.. that's the point! Discs are half the fun, for kids especially. It's getting harder to use real discs, but this + my greaseweasel will make it super quick to work with them on the fly. Thanks!
We love you, Rob!
Wow thank you, much appreciated
Beats any "But wait, there's more!" commercial I've ever seen. Fantastic work 👍👍
Thank you, and thanks for your superthanks
@@RobSmithDev If I had seen that software for sale, I wouldn't have hesitated to buy a copy. The Futurama "Shut up And Take My Money!" meme was stuck in my head throughout the video right up until you announced it was free 🎈
That is incredible, amazing work Rob! :)
Fantastic job, Rob! This will come very handy. You are the best! ♥
Thanks
This is just beyond awesome.
"Which target diskformat do you want to use?" "The one I always use." "Unrecognized answer. Which diskformat do you want to use?" "Amiga FFS!!"
Well done! Not sure what I will do with this, but really impressed by the tech :)
Thanks!
What a fantastic tool, well done sir!
This is amazing! Can't believe it's taken us so long for this to be a thing, it's so obvious :)
amazing!
oh wow love your work
Thank you
Yet another amazing surprise! -Mark.
😃these projects sure do keep me busy! It it’s fun!
That is awesome! I've got boxes of Amiga and ST disks which I haven't looked at in years, I'll have to get a drive and give this a try, maybe I can finally make a set of Workbench disks for my Amiga 🙂
Should be able to, 😃
Awesome!🤩Thank you Rob!
You are amazing, thanks for this Rob..
Fantastic. I always wished there was something like Style DirMaster for Amiga disks. This looks like the next best thing. Thanks!
Back in the day there was a great Windos95 program called ADF Opus that was similar although it did not have as many features. I am delighted that you have brought interoperability tools into the modern era. Thank you for what you do. I also encourage you to make a Linux version.
Sadly I won’t be working on a Linux version, I simply don’t have the time (or experience)
This is awesome Rob, you are spoiling us retro nuts :)
Well I figure if it’s useful to me I should share it :)
Brilliant!
Fantastic tool that I use for the unprotected Atari ST disks that I have in bulk in various boxes. One thing to add in your next update is that the file selector box has the cursor moved to the filename so that I can just type it in, without having to select that field?
Which specific window is this for?
@RobSmithDev When making a backup of a disk, the save option triggers the file selector. I'd like to be able to type the new filename gor saving but the focus/cursor isn't in the Filename field. You have tp select it with the mouse first, then you can start typing.
Amazing! Well done 👏
Brilliant! Thx Rob!
Absolute genius.
Is there anything we could do to help you add Kryoflux support as well? Contribute hardware, remotely debug something . . . ?
I’d say this is probably unlikely. This uses the same plugin that I wrote for WinUAE, so not really geared for actual professional level preservation, which is where they’d like to keep their devices being used and I totally understand that
Fantastic program. If you're still developing this software, I request adding support for .IMAGE files. It's essentially a Mac-only version of .IMG and they're a pain to open on Windows.
edit: this was kind of a dumb suggestion because windows handles files differently than mac. if you can find a way to do this without corrupting the files then ill be impressed
I’ll add it to the list, it’s not in any particular order but at least won’t be forgotten
Good work 🙂
Maybe consider adding PC88/PC98 diskimages ?
I’ve added it to my todo list. No promises but at least it won’t be forgotten
It took 20+ years for someone to do this..... finally. Now to figure out how to integrate it with CiderPress II so that one can support reading and writing Macintosh and Apple II floppies.
Not an Apple person myself I hadn’t heard of this, but it’s an interesting project! Might have to have a chat with the author
Super useful tool. Wish I had this 15 years ago 😂
😀 I think we all wish we had something like this 15 years ago! Me included lol :) enjoy
I'll donate a 5.25 1.2M floppy drive for you for your work. I currently have 4K good formatted cleaned (surface) inside out 360 floppies. a hand full of 720k 1.44 and no 1.2M disks all ready to be writing on
Thanks for the offer. Since making that video I've already be donated a 5.25" drive, and I purchased a second so should be good for now, but thanks anyway
The biggest takeaway I got from your video is that Dokan is usable nowadays! Last time I tried it, it crashed Windows almost all the time and I gave up on ever doing anything useful with it. But that was quite a few years back. I had forgotten about it, so very pleased to see it has matured. Does it work with non-M$ C compilers? (Are LCC, TCC etc even still available for Windows? I guess I should look into those again too. I jut can't bring myself to use M$'s bloatware compiler installation...)
Not sure, this is actually Dokany which is a fork of Dokan and I believe Google uses it for Google drive these days too
Amazing! But… does the pc editing strip the amiga only tooltypes (or like whatever the trouble is with rezipping whd lha files via windows…)?
Not sure what this means. Can you explain a little more?
@@RobSmithDev Sorry for my dozy ramblings, but I seem to remember that one should only ever extract amiga lha files inside the amiga environment. The following is definitely worth researching as I may be wrong: If extracted on windows,
A) the windows file handling cannot cope with certain characters and will strip them or mangle them, rendering the files unfindable in scripts on the amiga side.
B) file attributes and protection bits are not all shared between the two systems so can again get stripped.
or
C) the tooltypes (from .info files) get sorta messed up - truncated or stripped or corrupted somehow.
I don't have time right now to search down the forum posts that indicate these outcomes. Sorry!
But I do remember that I personally had troubles with some WHDLoad files that had been unlha'd then rezipped on a PC... I'm definitely not the only one! :)
This aminet tool specifically mentions the issue: aminet.net/package/util/arc/WHDArchiveExtractor.lha
So my question was, does browsing, opening or editing amiga files in the pc explorer risk any of these similar problems?
Hope this is helpful?
I think a classic one is the "executable" toggle in the info window...?
So internally it manages file names so they are safe for windows, but doesn’t alter their original name. the only time that would cause an issue is creating files windows side as you wouldn’t be able to create the weirder types. So yes extract LhA files Amiga side (unless I add a specific lha unarchiver thats safe)
File attributes - yeah these are a pain although mostly left untouched unless you do something that may modify them
As there’s no way to edit the .info files windows side it’s not an issue so shouldn’t be affected. I suspect what you’re talking about was crossdos rewriting these
@@RobSmithDev Yay! This is an amazing achievement. So much easier than all the other tools! Well done again sir!
this is exactly what I needed. however on your page, it mentions terrible USB floppy drives, will they work? because the software is 64-bit only and the only PC with an internal floppy drive is most certainly 32-bit only. should I buy a USB floppy drive or would I be wasting my money?
It only works with floppy drives connected via Drawbridge, Greaseweazle or Supercard Pro, so you don’t need a PC with the onboard floppy connector, and it wouldn’t use it if it was there.
Any USB floppy drive you buy most likely is a recycled drive. They still advertise as new but they aren’t. Some are amazing, but some are just terrible.
@@RobSmithDev thank you!
Works like a charm, please add support for 5.25 too! :D
I’ve now got two 5.25 drives and just working on this. To start with it will just be to support the current file systems supported but then after that I will maybe be adding something like C64 etc
@@RobSmithDev Hows the developing going? Getting it work with 5.25 isn't harder than 3.5? I have the site bookmarked, and checking it like a daily basis... :D
slow at the minute go lots of things on. If you install it the software can automatically check for updates too
Any chance of a linux and/or MacOS version in the future?
Very unlikely, I don’t have a Mac and don’t use a Linux, sorry. Linux does have ADF support though
@@RobSmithDev I just put a FDD with Greaseweazle 4.1 into my new VM and Docker server system - apart from fans it's the only mechanical part in there, as all the storage is NVME. I'm planning on using this with Windows running in a VM, but I don't leave that running at all times. With linux support I'd be able to access it on one of the distros I keep permanently spun up. :) Thanks for a great release nonetheless. And again for Drawbridge which is also that cat's ass (dog's bollocks over there).
Bedankt
ontzettend bedankt
Wow nice, wish YT allowed hearts instead of thumbs up cause this deserves it. fantastic job!
😀 I’ll post one here for you ❤️
@2:46 3 1/4" disks? 🫠
lol it’s been a busy few weeks!
Genius...
Where do we request adding another file system?
Best place is to head over to discord. If you have any actual information about that file system that would help too
@@RobSmithDev it's the Sinclair QL file system. I know one of the emulators (Q-emulator) can read QL disks on a PC floppy (even USB) so it would likely not be that difficult. Perhaps I'll see if I can get the emulator's author to contact you.
any reason why this wouldn't work under Wine? I might give it a go regardless, thanks for the great work
You’ll have to let me know, I’ve no experience using wine
Cool!
Nice !!
This is something, that is badly needed on the Archimedes line of computers.
I could add it to my todo list I guess
I’m an Amiga (and a little C64) man through and through, but have recently picked up a BBC Master 128 and have found reasonable tools for working with disc images and can then load on BBC using Gotek/FF, but working with real discs is not so easy. So have to agree that DFS/ADFS support would be an awesome addition.
This looks impressive. Now, if only there was a Linux version...
Well Linux already supports the Amiga file system I believe. It’s open source anyway so maybe someone will port it
@@RobSmithDev yes, but I've had the devil's own job with multi-format disks. Some coverdisks had three formats on them. Though, I suspect that they expoited the ST's ability to work with fat format.
Yeah I’ve yet to try one of those.
Unfortunately as 3-1/4" floppies are rare as hen's teeth being able to directly read them is not very useful 🙂
Haha yeah it’s been a long few weeks 😂
700k macintosh support soon?
Maybe…! Lots of research to make each of these work though.
Three and a quarter inch disks ???
to bad it doesn't support pfs3
Next version will, I’m about 50% through it!
@@RobSmithDev excellent look forward to it
Bare-Metal or what's the point?
….i think you missed the point