Preserved images are around 1 MiB (uncompressed) but it entirely depends on the disk contents, that is, information about the disk format not just the disk data. Most disk images should be about 3 MiB, and 1.5 MiB when compressed with ZIP. More information on this can be found in a separate knowledge base article.

Certain disks can produce very large images, up to 10 MiB has been seen, though this is fairly rare, depending on the system the disks are for. Therefore you need 5-6 MiB+ of memory for this depending on the disk. Imaging disks directly to hard disk is impossible because our disk imaging software does some very precise measurements which can be detrimentally affected by any hard disk activity. In (1), the imaging disk images disks to RAM and then copies the disk image to your chosen destination (i.e. This document assumes use of the menu-based imaging disk. Comprehensive documentation is obviously supplied. If this is not suitable for you, please contact us and we will send you an alternate version of the imaging disk although is command line based, works on Kickstart 1.3.

We have developed a menu-based system for simpler imaging of your games, but unfortunately this requires Kickstart 2 or above. The genuine drives work and run half-speed in HD mode, but the ‘fake’ ones use hardware buffers and other tricks that disrupt the dump process.

An Amiga “compatible” drive such as the PowerXL will NOT work for disk imaging. We Say ‘Commodore’ Amiga because later Amiga’s from Escom and Amiga Technologies had a modified PC drive fitted, which is not compatible with the dump process without significant modifications to the drive and motherboard.Īlso note that if you intend to image any High Density disks, then a genuine Amiga High Denisity Drive must be used. More detail about this is contained in a separate knowledge base article. More powerful 680×0 CPU‘s are perfectly fine, but the disk imaging tools will not work on anything less. Information follows on exactly what is needed to image 3.5” floppy disks that may or may not contain custom formats and copy protection.įirstly you need a Commodore Amiga computer with at least a Motorola 68020 processor.

Amiga floppy disk format