The standard PC floppy drive (if you can still find one of those) is technically incapable of reading Amiga disks because the method to encode bits is different, and the PC floppy drive does the decoding in hardware before the software gets access to it. The Amiga floppy drive just sent the raw data to the computer, and the software would pass it through some dedicated hardware to decode it, but the software had the option of doing the decoding differently, which is why the Amiga can read PC floppies but not the other way around.
Third-party floppy drives with the raw data access such as greaseweazle can access Amiga floppy disks.
Then you need to decode the filesystem. There are tools for that.
Once you have the files, it is likely that the music will be in MOD format. The music player mikmod will play these quite happily. Sampled sound will likely be in IFF or WAV format, and most sensible sound apps should be able to load these. The images are likely to be in IFF format, and something like GIMP should be able to load them.
>The standard PC floppy drive (if you can still find one of those) is technically incapable of reading Amiga disks because the method to encode bits is different, and the PC floppy drive does the decoding in hardware before the software gets access to it.
This is accurate except it's not the drive, but the controller (in the PC's motherboard).
Most of these drives can be directly used with an Amiga, while all of them can be used with a GreaseWeazle
>Third-party floppy drives with the raw data access such as greaseweazle can access Amiga floppy disks.
Third-party floppy drives with the raw data access such as greaseweazle can access Amiga floppy disks.
Then you need to decode the filesystem. There are tools for that.
Once you have the files, it is likely that the music will be in MOD format. The music player mikmod will play these quite happily. Sampled sound will likely be in IFF or WAV format, and most sensible sound apps should be able to load these. The images are likely to be in IFF format, and something like GIMP should be able to load them.