loading real disks and tapes into emulators

[morcar]

I have of late been looking at how I can load real software from various machines into emulators and i found a few but others have been a pain to find out about.

I know that for the Amiga I have to get a catweasle mk4 although they are hard to come by. I think I need the same device for C64 disks.

I will list here what machines i would love to own the real software but wanted to run them in the emulator and if u know of any ways i can do so please let me know.

Amiga (Disk) - Catweasle MK4
C64 (Disk) - Catweasle MK4 (maybe something else can do this too ?
Amstrad CPC & Spectrum +3 (Disk) - ?????
Atari ST (Disk) - ?????

I know i can run ZX Spectrum tapes into my Spectaculator Emulator just fine but do any Amstrad and C64 emulators do this too ?

 

[Firthy2002]

Surely it's easier and quicker just to use disk/tape images?

 

[Retrograde]

Well for C64 you have ZoomFloppy,
(http://www.go4retro.com/products/zoomfloppy/)
or possibly 1541 Ultimate series.

Good if you want to archive your own stuff, or write new images maybe.
But dozens of people have already done that, as the previous poster said.

 

[Ed.D]

You probably already know this but just in case, you can add disk images and real hard drives into UAE (Amiga Forever) and do a reset to enable what was added.

 

[Amiga Forever]

I remember in my old days when I played Gaunlet with my 2 friends, it took half hour to loads :wooha: then we all played gaunlet......and when we all died...

we had to load another half hours to get back main menu

Brilliant

 

[morcar]

Surely it's easier and quicker just to use disk/tape images?

yes it is but u cant beat using the real software and not just files