Hello,
I am a newby and appreciate any help; I have a bunch of floppies with pictures saved (i guess on .ilbm files using Deluxe Paint )that I used on my Amiga which I no longer have. I have a desktop with windows 7 64 bit. Can I just download XnConvert slip in my floppy and go and convert to .jpeg or .tiff ? Or do I need to install an an Amiga emulator program first, then I can go?
Regards,
Millard
amiga Paint .ilbm to .jpeg
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Re: amiga Paint .ilbm to .jpeg
Welcome to the forum, Millard. If Windows can't “see” your floppies, XnConvert doesn't have access to those files.
Amiga Forever (FAQ: [url=http://www.amigaforever.com/kb/13-118]Is there a way to read Amiga floppy disks on the PC?[/url]) wrote:Amiga floppy disks cannot be read on PCs without installing additional hardware such as a special floppy disk controller or a second floppy drive. As Amiga users know, this hardware incompatibility has limited Amiga-PC data sharing since the the Amiga was released in the mid-80s, and, although newer software and hardware have helped overcome this limitation, there is no way that software emulation alone can solve it: a PC cannot read Amiga disks using only the default PC floppy disk controller logic attached to a single disk drive.
Lemon Amiga (Cross-Platform Questions » [url=http://www.lemonamiga.com/help/faq_crossplatform.php]Can I read Amiga disks on my PC?[/url]) wrote:Only by installing additional hardware such as Catweasel. While Amiga and PC use the same type of disk drives, the Amiga drive is controlled by custom chips, which writes entire tracks at a time with no sector gaps. PC floppy controllers can't do this.
- Wikipedia: Individual Computers Catweasel
- Individual Computers Product Information Wiki: Catweasel