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Amiga Disk File (ADF) is a file format used by Amiga computers and emulators to store images of disks. It has been around almost as long as the Amiga itself, although it was not initially called by any particular name. Before it was known as ADF, it was used in commercial game production, backup and disk virtualization. ADF is a track-by-track dump of the disk data as read by the Amiga operating system, and so the 'format' is really fixed-width AmigaDOS data tracks appended one after another and held in a file. This file would, typically, be formatted, like the disk, in OFS.

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ADF is the open source Amiga floppy disk image format introduced with the first emulation applications. It is not compressed by itself, and supports very few copy protection schemes. Games in ADF format are usually 'cracked' variants which had their copy protection removed. The downloadable Floppy & Hard Disk Image Pack contains 16 floppy disk images (ADF files) and 2 hard disk images (HDF files), which make it possible to boot and set up any Classic Amiga model (including the Amiga 1000, 3000 and 4000T). Included ADF files (follow the links for a more detailed description and list of recent improvements).

Amiga Karate v1.0 (1987)(Eidersoft) 602 Ko Amiga Karate v1.0 (1987)(Eidersoft)a 602 Ko Amiga Karate v1.0 (1987)(Eidersoft)f NBCh BS1 602 Ko Amiga Karate v1.0 (1987)(Eidersoft)h A-Ha 605 Ko Amiga Karate v1.1 (1987)(Eidersoft)v SCA 603 Ko Amiga Poker (1988)(L&W Computer)(De)cr Antitrax 334 Ko.

Most ADF files are plain images of the Amiga-formatted tracks held on cylinder 0 to 79 of a standard 3.5-inch (89 mm) double-density floppy disk, also called an 880 KiB disk in Amiga terms. The size of an ADF will vary depending on how many tracks have been imaged, but in practice it is unusual to find ADF files that are not 901,120 bytes in size (80 cylinders × 2 heads × 11 sectors × 512 bytes/sector).

Most Amiga programs were distributed on double-density floppy disks. There are also 3.5-inch high-density floppy disks, which hold up to 1.76 MB of data, but these are uncommon. The Amiga also had 5.25-inch double-density disks. The WinUAE Amiga emulator supports all three disk formats, but 3.5-inch double-density is the most common.

ADF files can be downloaded and copied to Amiga disks with the EasyADF application and various applications freely available on the Internet. As they are plain disk images, they can be handled by the unix tool dd. On Linux and NetBSD, which support the most common Amiga filesystems, ADF files can be mounted directly.

There is a program called ADF Opus, which is a Microsoft Windows–based program that allows people to create their own ADF files. This program supports creating double density (880 KB ADF files, the most common) and high-density (1.76 MB) ADF files. ADF Opus also allows people to convert ADF files into ADZ files.

There is also a GPL command line program called unADF, which allows you to extract files from an ADF file.

The part of utility pack amitools contains a set of programs named xdftool. It is under GPL and can read, write, format, and do other operations with ADF-images.

ADZ[edit]

An ADZ file is an ADF file that has been compressed with gzip. The typical file extension is '.adz', derived from '.adf.gz'.^{[citation needed]}

IPF[edit]

The ADF file format can only store disks that have legal AmigaDOS format tracks. Disks with non-standard tracks may be available in ADF format, albeit cracked in order to create a regular AmigaDOS volume.^{[citation needed]} However, the Amiga itself was not limited to storing data in these standard tracks. The Amiga's floppy disk controller was very basic but transparent, and for that reason very flexible allowing disks of other and custom formats to be read and written as well. Disk handling is not locked down like the one in a modern PC, and so most of the work to read and write disks is done by the operating system itself.^[1] However, because programmers did not have to use the operating system routines, it was quite normal for games developers to create their own disk formats ^[2] and also apply many different sorts of copy protection.^[3] As it was, most full-price commercial Amiga games had some form of custom disk format and/or copy protection on them. For this reason, most commercial Amiga games cannot be stored in ADF files unaltered, but there is an alternative called Interchangeable Preservation Format (IPF) which was specifically designed for this purpose.

The Software Preservation Society Interchangeable Preservation Format (.IPF) is an open format for which the source code of the official library is available.^[4]

DMS[edit]

ADF files were sometimes compressed using the Disk Masher System, resulting in .dms files.

FDI[edit]

FDI (from Formatted Disk Image) is a universal disk image file format specification originally published by Vincent Joguin in 2000. The FDI format is publicly documented,^[5] and accompanied by open source access tools. Because the format can store raw low-level data, as is for example required to support copy protection schemes and other non-standard formats, FDI files can be larger than disk image files in other formats. The typical file extension is '.fdi'. Because of the universal design of the FDI format, files in other disk image formats, such as ADF, ADZ and DMS, can in theory be converted to FDI.

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References[edit]

1. ^'Software Preservation Society - Glossary'. 070820 softpres.org
2. ^'Software Preservation Society - Glossary'. 070820 softpres.org
3. ^'Software Preservation Society - Glossary'. 070820 softpres.org
4. ^http://forum.kryoflux.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=265
5. ^'Formatted Disk Image (FDI) File Format Version 2.0 Description'(PDF). 20111011 oldskool.org

Notes

• The Amiga Guru Book, Chapter 15, Ralph Babel, 1993
• Rom Kernel Reference Manual : Hardware, pages 235-244, Addison Wesley
• Rom Kernel Reference Manual : Libraries and Devices, Appendix C, Addison Wesley
• La Bible de l'Amiga, Dittrich/Gelfand/Schemmel, Data Becker, 1988.

The Amiga Explorer networking software makes it possible to access the resources of an Amiga computer from one or more Windows systems. Configuration is extremely simple and by default requires only a few mouse clicks on the Windows side.

Amiga Explorer is available as a stand-alone package, or as part of Amiga Forever Plus Edition and Premium Edition. Any Amiga Forever license key can be used to register the latest Amiga Explorer version downloadable from this page.

The free (unregistered) version of Amiga Explorer can be used without restrictions in command-line mode, and with a small file size limitation in Explorer mode.

Amiga Explorer upgrades have always been free, i.e. once you have an Amiga Forever or Amiga Explorer license key, that works with all versions of Amiga Explorer.

Main Features

• Copy data to and from the Amiga, and move, rename, delete, format and examine properties of Amiga files, directories and volumes, through the Windows File Explorer and command-line interfaces
• Write and read ADF (floppy disk image) files with a simple drag-and-drop (e.g. download an ADF file from the internet to the PC, then drop it over the Amiga floppy disk icon with Amiga Explorer to write the Amiga disk)
• Access and copy virtual HDF (hard disk images, or hardfiles) from the Amiga to the PC, very useful for archiving and emulation purposes
• View Amiga system properties, file attributes, disk geometry information, and format disks on the Amiga
• Automatically set the Amiga clock from the Windows side
• Run the Windows and the Amiga side on the same computer to access the content of ADF and HDF files (requires installation of the Amiga side in an Amiga emulation environment)

Requirements

• The PC and the Amiga must be connected with a null-modem serial cable (optionally via a USB serial interface or a Bluetooth serial adapter) or over TCP/IP
• Once installed on the Windows side, Amiga Explorer can self-install to the Amiga over the serial cable without requiring any additional software, but the Amiga must be able to boot first (e.g. with a Workbench disk, at least version 1.2)
• If a null-modem serial cable is used, the cable must conform to official specifications
• If TCP/IP is used, the Amiga side must have a bsdsocket.library-compatible TCP/IP stack (e.g. AmiTCP/IP 4.x or higher, Miami, GENESiS, UAE)

Compatibility

• The Amiga side, including the self-installation part (which can install to RAM, floppy disk, or to an optional hard disk), works with all Amiga computers (Workbench 1.2 or higher), and is compatible with AmigaOS 4.0 and MorphOS
• The Windows side (unified 32-bit and 64-bit installer) works on Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7 and equivalent Windows Server editions

Advantages

• Compared to Samba, NFS and other complex networking solutions (with which Amiga Explorer can co-exist), Amiga Explorer is very simple to configure, supports Amiga and emulation-specific features, works with older Amiga computers, and is often faster
• Unlike certain parallel-port based programs, Amiga Explorer is compatible with newer versions of Windows

Limitations

• Amiga explorer can access files on any type and size of Amiga partition, however the creation of virtual hardfiles uses 32-bit logic (as in the original Workbench up to version 3.1) which limits the maximum size of HDF disk images that can be created
• Amiga Explorer does not include any Amiga emulation software (if you need both Amiga Explorer and an Amiga emulation and Workbench package you may want to consider Amiga Forever, which costs only a little bit more)

Trial Version

Amiga Explorer is free to try, so you can make sure that your hardware and cabling work fine and that the software satisfies your needs. The unregistered version of Amiga Explorer never expires, but it cannot transfer files longer than 10 KB in Explorer mode (there are no limitations in command-line mode).

To install the evaluation software just download it from the link on this page and follow the setup instructions. If you like the software you can purchase a license at any time, and add it without reinstalling the software (right-click the Amiga Explorer icon and select Properties).

Thank you to all customers who register the software and contribute to the project.

Upgrades

The same version of Amiga Explorer that is downloadable from this page for evaluation purposes can also be used to upgrade a previous installation, in which case previous registration and configuration settings are preserved. Updates can be checked for in the Properties dialog of the Amiga side of Amiga Explorer.

PC-Amiga Connection Reference

A serial cable connection is a standard and inexpensive method to connect different types of computers and other communications devices. While it is not the fastest type of cabling for networking, it is probably the simplest to implement on the most different systems, and it allows for the initial installation of the Amiga side of Amiga Explorer without requiring additional software to transfer the files from the PC.

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If you would like to use Amiga Explorer over a serial connection, the following articles include schematics to assemble the null-modem cable yourself, as well as part numbers and pricing information for standard cables, and for Bluetooth serial adapters:

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If you prefer to use Amiga Explorer over TCP/IP, which allows for very fast connections over Ethernet, the Amiga Explorer documentation includes a complete tutorial on the installation of Ethernet and TCP/IP in mixed Amiga/PC environments. If you already have a network you only need to enter the Amiga's host name or IP address in the Amiga Explorer settings on Windows. If there is a firewall or router anywhere between the two, make sure that port 356 is not blocked. Change the default connection password on both the Amiga and the Windows side as an additional safety precaution.

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If you would like your Ethernet-enabled Amiga to join a WiFi network you can attach a 'wireless game adapter' or similar device to the Amiga Ethernet port, and Amiga Explorer will work over that as well.