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Format

Amiga Disk File

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Summary

Name
Amiga Disk File
Identifiers
PUID: fmt/1361
Format type
Aggregate
Description
An Amiga Disk File is the file format used by Amiga computers and emulators to store images of disks. It is a sector by sector dump of an Amiga formatted disk. It's uses include backup, disk virtualisation and game production.
Note
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Disk_File http://lclevy.free.fr/adflib/adf_info.html
File extensions
adf
Submitted by
National Library of Australia / National Library of Australia

Internal signatures

Amiga Disk File

Description
BOF: ‘DOS’ followed by ‘00|01|02|03|04|05|06|07’ depending on the format of the disk. More information on the internal signature can be found here: http://lclevy.free.fr/adflib/adf_info.html#p41

Byte sequences

Min Frag Length
Absolute from BOF
Offset
0
Max offset
0
Byte Sequence
444F53(00|01|02|03|04|05|06|07)
Endianness
None

Changelog

  • V97

    Release date
    1 October 2020

    • Added format

      Amiga Disk File: Full entry added. Submitted by The National Archives and Records Administration and National Library of Australia.

    • Added signature

      Amiga Disk File: Signature developed and samples provided by National Library of Australia and The National Archives and Records Administration.