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Supported Image Types

Keir Fraser edited this page Mar 19, 2024 · 8 revisions

Sector Image Types

Supported for read and write, with automatic verification:

  • ADF (Commodore Amiga, 880k and 1760k; Acorn ADFS)
  • ADS, ADM, ADL (Acorn ADFS)
  • DSD, SSD (Acorn DFS)
  • D64 (Commodore 64 1541 GCR)
  • D71 (Commodore 64 1571 GCR)
  • D81 (Commodore 64 1581 MFM)
  • IMD (IBM Sectors)
  • IMG, IMA, DSK (Generic suffixes for IBM FM/MFM Raw Sector)
  • MGT (Sinclair ZX Spectrum DISCiPLE/+D, SAM Coupé)
  • MSA, ST (Atari ST)
  • SF7 (Sega SF-7000)

Import-Only Image Types

Supported only for importing existing images. Can be written to disk with automatic verification:

  • D88, DCP, DIM, FDI, HDM, XDF (PC-98)
  • DSK, EDSK (Amstrad CPC; Also used by Spectrum +3, SAM Coupé, and others)
    • Automatically disambiguated from raw-sector DSK by header signature
  • IPF (Universal 'Golden Image' Format)
  • TD0 (IBM Sectors)

Raw Image Types

Universal raw image types supported for read and write, no automatic verification:

  • HFE (Raw Bitcells)
  • Kryoflux (Raw Flux)
  • SCP (Raw Flux)

These can be used or analysed in several ways:

  • WinUAE, FS-UAE (Universal Amiga Emulator): Directly support SCP files
  • Disk-Utilities: A command-line analyser and transcoder
  • HxC Software: A GUI visualiser, analyser and transcoder

Write-only (existing image to disk):

  • A2R (Applesauce 3.x Raw Flux)