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[Rogue]

Amiga uses 3.5" disk, which is not that standard, but amiga formated. In the order to read disk on regular PC you'll need a floppy disk drive that supports amiga format (I can find a list of drives if needed) and then you still need to do some wire-moving stuff. Not fun at all.

Instead of posting this question on DOS forum, you should post it on an Amiga forum such as English Amiga Board (google).

@Gelfo - today amiga emulator is almost better then a real thing. It emulates everything, from hard disk to 4 floppies, all video chips including AGA and very nice sound. Add to this save state option and WHDLoad, which makes Amiga games hard disk compatible (which were never meant to)! In overall, the best and most complete emu yet for any system. (Of course I'm talking about WinUAE)

@Titan - there aree programs to extract amiga files from disks to a file, and you don't need hard disk, as you might use PC connection to do it. BUt why to do it when all of the games are available on roms already.

As for disk format, most older games were done in ADF format, but my favorite format is IPF. It stores original disk, and if you write over that disk, you can always move it back to previous state. So for example if game uses floppy disk to write hi-scores, you can later clear all of that and have again original disk. This format is done by amiga preservation project.

[The Fifth Horseman]

Actually, Amiga can read/write normal FDD's as well.

[Gelfo]

Originally posted by Anubis@Feb 10 2006, 04:42 PM
WHDLoad

Word Word. I used this (and the other one.. J..something) when I had my A1200 functional, it was great.

Every PC Floppy Drive I have ever tried an amiga formatted disk in has been able to read it fine.

Amigas normally only have 750k? floppies so they go all spazzy if you put a 1.44mb disk into them. 750kb Dos formatted disks are a rarity these days, but you could install a High Density Floppy drive into an Amiga and then with Crossdos, the world is yours for the taking... I need to lie down

[Rogue]

You can install network card in A1200 and then you don't have a need for floppies.

[DeathsHead]

Guess thats a no for the game then :angry:
If any one maneges to get this from any place working on PC pls let me know. Thanks.

[Titan]

Look... just because a game exsisted on AMIGA, doesn't automaticly make it appear on a PC-platform...

So.. if you want to play old Amiga-games, there are two ways, and ONLY 2 ways..

Either you get the real hardware (Amiga 500, 600, 1200 and so on) OR you EMULATE the hardware on another system.

The amiga 500/600 used NORMAL 3,5" 720 kb DD discs, and COULD take HD 1,4 MB but only read/write 720 of them.
The 1200 had in SOME cases a HD-drive (not Hard Drive) and could take the full 1,4 MB / disc.

All this talk about 5,25" is from ppl who never owned a Comodore Amiga XXX, and should be ignored, as they are GUESSING and not knowing FACTS.. (pretty big difference).

I have owned 1 A500 (standard, not +) 1 A600 40MB HD, 1 A1200 AGA (no HD) with a CD32 addon.


To answer your question; Your best bet is to get an Emulator, buy the Kickstart-ROM from the official Amiga-site, and get some games.

[Scatty]

As you all can see here on Mobygames the game is available for PC too, and you can buy it on eBay at least, if you click on the review of the respective version of the game. And if not, search somewhere on the net.
I don't know what else is here in this thread to discuss yet :crazy:

[Fantasy Freak]

This was ace was later bettered by magic and mayhem, sorta...

In case you haven't noticed I used to have an ST so some of these games might not have been done on PC if so just shout at me I can take it

[Tom Henrik]

It was made for DOS, yeah - and it is Abandoned.

You might want to try using this in the future. That's what I use to find the answers to your questions

[Fantasy Freak]

Yeah but it's more fun letting you lot do the leg work