28 Nov
2000
28 Nov
'00
2:18 p.m.
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