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Floppy drive emulation
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E-UAE emulates up to four floppy drives. Standard PC floppy drives cannot
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read Amiga floppies, so floppy disks are currently supported as image files
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(support for Catweasel hardware, a floppy controller which can read Amiga
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floppies - and other unusual disk formats - will be added in a future
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version).
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E-UAE supports a number of floppy image formats, optionally compressed by
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gzip or packed inside a Zip archive.
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ADF
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The classic floppy image format for UAE, a plain raw image of the disk's
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formatted contents.
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DMS
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DMS was a popular disk image cruncher. E-UAE can transparently read DMS
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images.
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FDI
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FDI is a floppy image format used by the Disk2FDI tool. See
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http://www.oldskool.org/disk2fdi.
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IPF
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IPF is the floppy image format employed by the CAPS project (see
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http://caps-project.org/). A suitable plug-in, downloadble from the CAPS web
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site, must be installed on the host system to allow IPF images to be used.
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(At the time of writing, the plug-in is available for only x86 and PPC Linux
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hosts and AmigaOS hosts.)
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Creating blank ADF images
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On Unix-like platforms, a blank floppy image can be created as follows. To
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create a standard 3.5" DD image, use:
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dd if=/dev/zero of=blank.adf count=1760
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To create a 3.5" HD image, use:
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dd if=/dev/zero of=blank.adf count=3520
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