On Linux, any tool which can read from the block device corresponding to the drive will do: dd, cat. If your disks use one of the formats supported by USB floppy drives, and you only need to dump the raw sector contents, that’s the simplest option: there are a number of tools for current operating systems which can read a floppy using a USB drive. For straightforward images, using modern hardware There’s a Windows DLL (see the first Pasti link above) but that’s not going to be all that easy to use on Android. Otherwise, you’ll have to ask the emulator’s author, if it doesn’t already support them. To load images into your emulator, assuming this is an emulator you’re writing, you’d have to add support for Pasti images. Note that dumping to Pasti images means you then need to carefully check the result - Pasti can’t determine whether a bad read reflects a bad floppy or dirty head, or a copy-protection mechanism. Using modern hardware, you’d probably have to look into a KryoFlux or SuperCard Pro, or hardware/software combinations which can produce KryoFlux or SCP raw images (such as Greaseweazle or Flu圎ngine controllers), and Aufit, which converts KryoFlux or SCP dumps to Pasti format. To dump Atari ST disks, you can use Pasti on your Atari computer the advantage is that it works quite well, and won’t require any extra hardware.
There are two problems here: dumping the disks, and loading them in your emulator. How can I dump those community games in the MSA or RAW format in order to load them inside my Android phone emulator? So I prefer using the external drive (maybe buying a SCSI/IDE converter).
The Atari still works but the 250-volt electrical insulation is almost gone and many keys on the keyboard stopped working (other than that games are still playable if being careful). I have the official external floppy reader but as you might guess, the connector can't be plugged on a modern computer directly. But in my case almost all floppies are formatted using the Atari specific method which allowed them to put more data per floppy than on a floppy in a PC. I know the real answer is to download cracked games but from the era before internet got afordable, I have a lot of community games which never reached the Internet and that I would like to rescue as some floppies start to no longer be readable.Īs you know, the Atari system uses standard 3.5 inch floppies and can read PC floppies.
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