OmniFlop

[Dizzy]

Well if you dont know this nice ‘universal’ floppy disk reader, writer, and tester you might like to visit this site

As said it can read, write, format and test all kinds of floppy formats check this featurelist

Automatic detection of formats and hardware.
[ for v2.01g] Manual and automatic choice of format.
Read, write, and format Single Density*, Double Density, and High Density disks.
Read, write, and format 3½" and 5¼" disks.
Read and write ‘standard’ disk image files (‘.img’).
Read and write ‘interleaved double-sided’ images (‘.dsd’) for double-sided disks containing single-sided formats.
Read and write single-sided format images (‘.ssd’).
Read and write ‘Cylinder/Head/Sector’ images (‘.chs’).
Read and write ‘Head/Cylinder/Sector’ images (‘.hcs’).
Read and write ‘Head 0 then Head 1’ images (‘.hcs’).
Read and write ‘Head 0 out then Head 1 back’ (FEAT) images (‘.fea’).
[ for v2.01h] Read and write Commodore 1581 floppy images ('.d81').
Read, write, and format IBM PC DOS formats (160kB, 180kB, 256kB, 320kB, 360kB, 640kB, 720kB, 800kB, 1.2MB, 1.23MB, 1.44MB, 2.88MB, 20.8MB, 120MB, 128MB, 230MB).
Read, write, and format extended DOS formats (1215kB, 1230kB, 1245kB, 1458kB, 1476kB, 1494kB, 1722kB).
Read, write, and format CP/M-80 format (640kB), as used on the Philips P2000C and many others.
Read, write, and format ABB/Asea Robot format (640kB).
Read, write, and format Acorn BBC Master 512 DOS formats (360kB, 720kB).
Read, write, and format Acorn ADFS formats (ADFS S 160kB, ADFS M 320kB, ADFS L 640kB, ADFS D/E 800kB, ADFS F 1600kB).
Read, write, and format BBC SJ Research MDFS format (800kB).
Read, write, and format Acorn BBC 40-track and 80-track formats, single & double-sided (100kB, 200kB, 400kB).
Read, write, and format Acorn BBC Z80 CP/M format (400kB).
Read, write, and format Acorn BBC Master 512 DOS Plus format (800kB).
Read, write, and format Acorn BBC DDOS 80-track format (360kB, 720kB).
Read, write, and format AKAI MPC 60 MK II format (800kB).
Read, write, and format AKAI S-900 formats (800kB, 1440kB).
Read, write, and format AKAI S-950 formats (800kB, 1440kB, 1600kB).
Read, write, and format AKAI S-1000 formats (800kB, 1600kB).
Read, write, and format AKAI S-3000 formats (800kB, 1600kB).
[ for v2.01h] Read and write Amstrad AMSDOS Data format, single & double-sided.
Read, write, and format Amstrad CP/M format.
[ for v2.01h] Read and write Amstrad AMSDOS System format, single & double-sided.
[ for v2.01h] Read and write Amstrad AMSDOS System/Data DS and Data/System DS formats.
Read, write, and format Apple Macintosh 1.44MB HD HFS format (1.44MB).
Read, write, and format Atari ST DSDD format.
Read, write, and format Atari STE formats (738kB, 800kB, 810kB).
[ for v2.01f] Read, write, and format Atari ST 820kB format
Read, write, and format BMI3030A format (396kB).
Read, write, and format cbm1581 format (800kB).
Read, write, and format cmdfd1m, cmdfd2m, cmdfd4m formats (810kB, 1620kB, 3240kB).
Read, write, and format DEC Rainbow format (400kB).
[ for v2.01g] Read, write, and format Dynacord (1600kB).
[ for v2.01] Read, write, and format Electroglas Wafer Probers CP/M (800kB).
[ for v2.01f] Read, write and format EMu Emax (800kB).
[ for v2.01f] Read, write and format EMu EOS (1440kB).
[ for v2.01f] Read, write and format EMu ESi (1440kB).
Read, write, and format Ensoniq ASR-10 formats (720kB, 820kB, 1440kB, 1600kB, 1640kB).
Read, write, and format Ensoniq EPS formats (720kB, 800kB, 820kB, 1440kB, 1600kB, 1640kB)
Read, write, and format Ensoniq KS32 formats (720kB, 800kB, 820kB, 1440kB, 1600kB, 1640kB)
Read, write, and format Ensoniq KT formats (720kB, 800kB, 820kB, 1440kB, 1600kB, 1640kB)
[ for v2.01f] Read, write, and format Ensoniq Mirage (400kB)
Read, write, and format Ensoniq SQ1 formats (720kB, 800kB, 820kB, 1440kB, 1600kB, 1640kB)
Read, write, and format Ensoniq SQ2 formats (720kB, 800kB, 820kB, 1440kB, 1600kB, 1640kB)
[ for v2.01h] Read, write, and format Ensoniq SQ80 formats (480kB, 720kB, 800kB, 820kB, 1440kB, 1600kB, 1640kB)
Read, write, and format Ensoniq TS12 format (1540kB)
Read, write, and format Ensoniq VFX-SD formats (720kB, 800kB, 820kB, 1440kB, 1600kB, 1640kB)
[ for v2.01g] Read, write, and format HP-2100 8" format (125kB)
Read, write, and format IBM Torch Graduate format (360kB).
[ for v2.01f] Read, write, and format Korg DSS-1 format (800kB)
[ for v2.01f] Read, write, and format Korg T-series (T1, T2, T2EX, T3, T3EX) (1600kB)
Read, write, and format LynxDOS format (800kB).
[ for v2.01d] Read, write, and format Moog TMC Blowmould control format (640kB).
[ for v2.01g] Read, write, and format Mori Seiki DS DD format (648kB)
Read, write, and format NEC PC9801 UV & NEC FC9801 V DMF format (1680kB).
[ for v2.01f] Read, write, and format Oberheim DPX (800kB)
[ for v2.01d] Read, write, and format Peavey SP format (1440kB).
[ for v2.01f] Read, write, and format Prophet 2002 (800kB)
[ for v2.01d] Read, write, and format RadioShack OS9/Nitros9 40-track, 80-track, single & double-sided, 96TPI and 48TPI formats (180kB, 360kB, 720kB).
Read, write, and format Roland S5xx formats (720kB, 1440kB).
Read, write, and format Roland S7xx format (720kB, 1440kB).
Read, write, and format Shima Seiki DS DD format (640kB).
[ for v2.01d] Read, write, and format Sinclair ZX Spectrum BetaDisk 40S format (160kB).
Read, write, and format Sinclair ZX Spectrum BetaDisk 40D format (320kB).
[ for v2.01d] Read, write, and format Sinclair ZX Spectrum BetaDisk 80S format (320kB).
[ for v2.01d] Read, write, and format Sinclair ZX Spectrum BetaDisk 80D format (640kB).
Read, write, and format Sinclair ZX-Spectrum TR-DOS (640kB) format.
Read, write, and format Sinclair Spectrum Plus3 CP/M format.
Read, write, and format Spectrum Miles Gordon Tech +D/Disciple format (800kB).
[ for v2.01f] Read, write, and format Spectrum Opus Discovery (180kB)
Read, write, and format Sinclair QL QDOS (800kB).
Read, write, and format Stride PDOS (640kB) format.
[ for v2.01d] Read, write, and format Tandy CoCo RSDOS single & double-sided 48TPI (157.5kB, 315kB).
Read, write, and format Tandy CoCo RSDOS single & double-sided 96TPI (157.5kB, 315kB).
Read, write, and format ZEISS Spectrophotometer Specord M400 format (640kB).
Extended support of more drive types, motherboards and media.
Test floppy disks for compatibility with the IBM PC (including unknown formats!)
Read and write unknown formats, including Intel 8271, WDC1770, and NEC µPD765 FDC formats.
Easy to use – a wizard guides you through the process.
Choice of formats and detection algorithms after auto-detection.
Diagnostics included for advanced support and data recovery.

some kind of list

[DamienD]

Cheers for that. Very interesting...

Basically, I'm trying to find a way to image FM Towns Boot Disks (720Kb) on a WinXP PC. Have to check it out and see if it works

[DamienD]

Hmmm, I know it's not really Amiga related but... nobody know's how to do this do they

I think FM Towns disk are usually 720Kb or 1200Kb and they get converted into a .bin file for use on Unz

[cdoty]

I wasn't ablle to get it to read FM Towns disks.

[DamienD]

I was actually chatting with the author of OmniFlop. He's a very helpful guy and asked me to send some FM Towns FD images so that he could analyse them and try to implement support in OmniFlop. He did write back to me and say it is possible with a bit more analysis

He then requested that I send him some original FM Towns floppy disks also. Unfortunately I don't have any of these but my friend who has 50 original games does. Trying to convince him to part with these for a few weeks is difficult (which is understandable) so no real progress has been made

PS. I like your avatar, is it from the homebrew version of Frog Fest (Neo-Geo)?

[MethodGit]

http://www.shlock.co.uk/Utils/OmniFlop/OmniFlop.htm

You guys heard of this before? Covers a lot of formats by the looks of it......... except for the Amiga! *budumtish*

Still, should be useful for people with disks from other platforms. Just hope you still have internal floppy drives in this day and age.

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by MethodGit

You guys heard of this before?

Yup, I use it to create / write images of FM Towns / Marty disks. It's very cool software

Thread merged with old one

[prowler]

Hi All,

New version Omniflop 2.2c has just been released.

http://www.shlock.co.uk/Utils/OmniFlop/OmniFlop.htm

[prowler]

OmniFlop has just been updated to 2.2d.

http://www.shlock.co.uk/Utils/OmniFlop/OmniFlop.htm