Archiving Amiga floppies

From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
Date: Tue Nov 28 14:18:01 2000

I'd like to archive my massive collection of Amiga floppies.
I have tubs and tubs of them. I'd like to end up with
CD-Rs of them, containing disk images accessible under
emulation or that could re-create floppies on demand.

I'm so out of touch with what's possible on the Amiga,
I don't know which tool would best handle the job.

Considerations in mind include reasonable handling of
bad sectors or other sorts of semi-readable floppies.
I doubt I have much that's actually copy-protected.

It would be great to be able to get directory listings
of these disk images, so I could create a master list
of all the files there.

My A2000/040 is still up and running, and I even have
an Ethernet card capable of running NFS, so I can save
files directly to my PC's drive (running an NFS server.)
>From there I can burn CDs.

(Historical note: back in 1993, I even created ISO images
on an Amiga, saved them to Exabyte, and had them burned
to real glass-master pressed CDs.)

- John
Received on Tue Nov 28 2000 - 14:18:01 GMT