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Ah, nice thanks. In that case, yes, it might be of interest. However, as you probably realised, the fact that there are so few of them around (it seems) means that most people would not be able to make use of whatever we did with it anyway...

Thanks for that DoubleDutch, very interesting stuff!

Personally, I do take rather a dim view of pirates/crackers. But I won't go into that here.

@Psychophanta:

If this device is what I think it is (an "analogue" based hardware copier), then unfortunately it (and all devices like this) are pretty ...

The ADF format will not cope with the protection I used. As well as long tracks (using a smaller bit size) I made both clock and data zero for a section of the track, the effect of this was a kind of "randomness" to the data in that particular section of the track.
This kind of protection was quite ...

I said it's an Amiga disk format, not any disk format. :) In other words,
you can hand me any bona fide Amiga floppy disk and I can create an
ADF disk image file of it, which can be used with any Amiga emulator.
The different formats I referred to are AmigaDOS, DMS, and so on;
all of which were ...

actually, caps is doing it wrong (in my humble opinion etc. etc. etc.)

what use is preserving the original format if it isn't playable? one day we will be running out of hardware, and on that day whatever is preserved has to work on an emulator

They certainly *are* playable. WinUAE has supported ...

I still don't understand -- the ADF file format (used in Amiga emulators) is an an Amiga disk floppy image, no matter which format the floppy used, so what's the difference? ADFs preserve the storage perfectly...

If ADF could store any disk format, you could use it to store (for example) PC disks ...