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Because of the inability of most modern PC floppy drives to read Amiga disks (since Amiga floppies use sectors outside of the appropriate "readable" range for PC disks, IIRC), it can be hard to convert Amiga disks to ROMs.

However, in ~2000 there was a mechanism discovered whereby you can take two PC 3.5" floppy drives and get a ROM from an Amiga disk. The way it worked is you have one PC disk that will be destroyed, and you instruct the floppy controller to do a low-level floppy-to-floppy copy operation from the Amiga disk to the (burner) PC disk. The CPU will listen in on the copy and get the full Amiga disk image, while the PC disk gets overwritten with junk.

I used this mechanism and saved all my old Amiga files, and happily play many of my old games (awesome retro demo-scene crackers/trainers included! yea!) using the UAE emulator to this day.



> The way it worked is you have one PC disk that will be destroyed

I think "sacrificed" is more appropriate here.




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