DiskFlashback v1.0.2
A FREE Windows package to use Floppy/Hard Disk Images Files & Non/PC Real Floppy Disks in Windows, directly.
Why?
I wanted to be able to access my Amiga and other systems floppy disks without having to boot an emulator. I wanted to be able to open a disk image file (like ADF, IMG etc) in Windows in the easiest way possible, as well as be able to use a real floppy drive too and see whats on it.
So I decided to build this - which allows you to view and edit the contents of real disks (floppy and hard drive) and disk image files directly from Windows Explorer, and yes, you can even read non-PC floppy and hard disks in real time too (hardware required for floppy disks).
See the Getting Started Guide! for more details!
Features
- Mount ADF, DMS*, IMG, IMA, ST, MSA*, HDA, HDF, DSK (MSX) and SCP* files as virtual drives (* read only)
- Supports AmigaDOS OFS/FFS/PFS File Systems for Floppy & Hard Disks
- Supports IBM/PC FAT12/16 DD 720k & HD 1.44Mb Disks
- Supports Atari ST FAT12/16 GemDOS Single and Double Sided normal & extended Disks
- Supports MSX FAT12 File system (some characters will be incorrect)
- Supports Dual/Tripple Format (NEW!) Amiga/Atari floppy disks and mounts them as two drives! (read only)
- Mount your DrawBridge, Greaseweazle or SupercardPro as a real floppy drive in Windows
- NEW: Mount your real Amiga Hard Disks/Memory Cards as drives
- Create blank disk images for the above formats.
- Rip real floppy disks to file (sector based files only)
- Write disk images to real floppy disks
- Install boot blocks on Amiga disks
- Format floppy disks in a range of formats
- Optionally silently swap Amiga file extensions (eg: mod.thismusic to thismusic.mod)
- NEW: Provides a simple floppy drive head cleaner function
Download - It's Free!
How does it work?
DiskFlashback is powered by the following libraries
- Dokany for the Virtual Drives
- ADFLib for the Amiga File System
- FatFS for the FAT12/16 File System
- xDMS for DMS File Support
- FloppyBridge for Real Floppy Disk Support
- PFS3Lib for PFS File System (based on pfs3aio by Michiel Pelt)
DiskFlashback is OpenSource and available under the GPL2 Licence, and available from GitHub.
Join me on Discord for discussion about the product!
Current TODO List:
The following is currently on my TODO list and not in any specific order:
- Implement shell extension so custom filesystem attributes can be configured
- Implement a safe LHA tool that will extract and maintain Amiga file attributes
- Decode amiga .info files and show/use their icons
- Add support for 5 1/4" disks (I now have two drives)
- Add support for C64 floppy file system
- Add support for PC88/98 floppy file system
- Add support for Amiga diskspare.device floppy disks
- Add support for ZX Spectrum floppy file system
- Add support for Apple HFS file system
- Add support for the X68000 file system
- Add writing an IPF file to disk
- Add reading and writing SCP files to disk
- more to follow... is there a feature missing?
Download DiskFlashback V1.0.2 (released 7th August 2024)
