Several times I was asked how to copy a game or program, from USB pendrive to diskette, directly to the Amiga. Here is the answer! We use X-Copy Pro!
This procedure is fine on all Commodore Amiga, although I use an A1200 in this article.
Needed to copy a floppy disk with X-Copy Pro
X-Copy Pro is a software for the Commodore Amiga, released in the early 90s. Still, it is very useful for creating floppy disks from ADF files: images of Gotek disks found on the internet.
To copy a game or program, from USB pendrive to diskette, using the Amiga directly, you must:
- the XCopy Pro program: you can find it on the internet;
- a Gotek, which would then be a floppy disk drive emulator that uses USB pendrives instead of floppy disks.
You can boot X-Copy Pro from Amiga WorkBench or directly from a USB stick by selecting the X-Copy Pro ADF via Gotek's FlashFloppy selector.
In this video, from minute 15:55, I show how to load X-Copy Pro via WorkBench and try to copy a utility from external Gotek to diskette.
Using XCopy Pro for Amiga
Start the Commodore Amiga with the WorkBench diskette inserted and the Gotek connected to the external floppy disk drive port.
When the Amiga WorkBench has started, we can remove the WorkBench floppy and insert the XCopy Pro diskette: the copy program.
If X-Copy Pro is in ADF format, you must insert it into the Gotek's USB pendrive and boot it from the external floppy disk drive.
It is also possible that X-Copy Pro can start directly, without WorkBench, but this depends on which ADF you find on the internet and download.
Let's start XCopy Pro. As the source disk (Source) we put DRIVE 1: click to turn on the light bulb above the floppy 1 icon. Drive 1 is the external Gotek. As the destination disk (Target) we set the DRIVE 0: The floppy disk in the Amiga's internal drive. To do this, we turn on the light bulb below the floppy 0 icon.
So, source: drive 1 (external), where we have already selected through the Gotek or FlashFloppy selector the ADF of the game or program to copy.
As a destination, we put the drive 0 which is then the physical disk that we have inserted into the internal drive of the Amiga. Remember that the left window of the floppy disk must be covered: the disk must not be write-protected. Use a disk that does not contain data of interest to you!
After setting the source and destination, we start copying: we press, with the mouse, the button START!
The XCopy program copies track by track. Meanwhile, the Gotek shows the track number that is read.
After copying all tracks, X-Copy Pro shows the warning “Operation done", indicating that the copy was successful.
To test if the copy was really successful, we can restart the computer (through the key combination Control + L.Amiga + R.Amiga) and check if the computer starts the diskette.
I like this software!
Me too!