• Amiga Disk File (ADF) is a file format used by Amiga computers and emulators to store images of floppy disks. It has been around almost as long as the...
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  • Amiga's hardware, a disk operating system called AmigaDOS, a windowing system API called Intuition, and a desktop environment and file manager called Workbench...
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  • original filesystem became known as Amiga Old File System (OFS). OFS, which was primarily designed for use with floppy disks, had been proving slow to keep...
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    volume, such as a floppy disk. Most Amiga models were shipped with the Kickstart firmware stored on ROM chips. Commodore's AmigaOS was formed of both the...
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    popular formats are .ADF (Amiga Disk File), .DMS (DiskMasher) and .IPF (Interchangeable Preservation Format) files. The DiskMasher format is copy-protected...
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  • AmigaDOS is the disk operating system of the AmigaOS, which includes file systems, file and directory manipulation, the command-line interface, and file...
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  • On the Amiga, the Old File System was the filesystem for AmigaOS before the Amiga Fast File System. Even though it used 512-byte blocks, it reserved the...
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  • the desktop environment and graphical file manager of AmigaOS developed by Commodore International for their Amiga line of computers. Workbench provides...
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  • Intuition, a windowing system API. AmigaDOS and AmigaShell: AmigaDOS is the disk operating system for the OS, whereas AmigaShell is the integrated Command...
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  • File System Amiga Fast File System Professional File System Amiga rigid disk block List of file systems Darren Eveland. "Hard drive setup for AmigaOS...
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  • supporting common disk image formats, Amiga Forever can also play back .Author files in Cloanto's proprietary RP9 format, which are compressed files, embed all...
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  • a floppy disk named "Amiga Workbench". Version 3.1 of the Amiga operating system was the first version to be officially referred to as "Amiga OS" (with...
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  • In computing, a rigid disk block (RDB) is the block on a hard disk where the Amiga series of computers store the disk's partition and filesystem information...
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    Module file (MOD music, tracker music) is a family of music file formats originating from the MOD file format on Amiga systems used in the late 1980s...
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  • clustered file system, the shared-disk file system – by adding mechanisms for concurrency control – provides a consistent and serializable view of the file system...
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    The Amiga 1200, or A1200 (code-named "Channel Z"), is a personal computer in the Amiga computer family released by Commodore International, aimed at the...
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    preparing a newly installed disk after a partitioning scheme is chosen for the new disk before any file system is created. The disk stores the information...
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    file of large size on the Amiga filesystem, and this file would be virtually accessed from the emulator as if it were a real PC Hard Disk. The file could...
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    AmigaDOS is the disk operating system and command line portion of the OS and Workbench the native graphical windowing, graphical environment for file...
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  • Amiga software is computer software engineered to run on the Amiga personal computer. Amiga software covers many applications, including productivity...
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  • Amiga filesystem, called the Old File System. This was good for floppy disks but wasted space on hard disks and is considered obsolete. The Fast File...
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    TF: time stamp SF: sparse file data Amiga Rock Ridge is similar to RRIP, except it provides additional properties used by AmigaOS. It too is built on the...
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    may use disk images made from original Amiga floppy disks. These images have the file extension of "ADF" (Amiga Disk File). Actual Amiga disks cannot be...
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  • name of the operating system itself. Disk file systems are usually block-oriented. Files in a block-oriented file system are sequences of blocks, often...
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    This is a list of different floppy disk formats. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, many different logical disk formats were used, depending on the hardware...
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  • aquatic amphibians belonging to the pipid frog genus Hymenochirus Amiga Disk File format Amsterdam Density Functional, electronic structure program Automatic...
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    The Professional File System is a filesystem originally developed commercially for the Amiga, now distributed on Aminet with a 4-clause BSD license. It...
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    appeared in Amiga models built between 1985 and 1990: the Amiga 1000, Amiga 2000, Amiga CDTV, and Amiga 500. The chipset which gave the Amiga its unique...
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    double-density MFM disks in PCs like the IBM PC Convertible. IBM PC compatibles adopted it too, while the Amiga used MFM encoding on the same disks to give a capacity...
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    parts of AmigaOS had to be moved from the ROM, and thus the A4000T was the only machine to require the file workbench.library to be stored on disk (this...
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