Even Toni Wilen has contributed the this great Amiga Christmas atmosphere and released updated version of adfread and announced new version of WinUAE that appears before the end of this year!


Adfread will allow you to create ADF floppy disk images from regular Amiga disks using standard PC hardware. It uses same method as Disk2FDI but is compatible with Windows 2000 and newer.

Requirements:

- Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista
- PC mainboard must have hardware support for 2 floppy drives. Unfortunately most modern PC mainboards don't have B: drive motor and select signals connected. MB is compatible if you can configure both A: and B: drives in BIOS. (usually..)
- 2 non-USB floppy drives installed on the same cable
- Regular format Amiga disks without any copy-protection
- A normal PC-formatted 1.44M floppy

Changes from 1.0 to 1.1:

- Improved internal disk operations
- Adfread can be run multiple times and only damaged sectors are retried (uses <name of adf>.status file to store sector status information)
- Small fixes and updates

[Download adfread] [Download Driver]



WinUAE 1.3.4 WIP (24.12.2006)
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Estimated release date: Before year 2006 ends.

Bugs fixed:

- Improved bsdsocket emulation stability
- Winuaeclipboard crash fix
- Windows Vista compatibility fixes
- Filesystem flag handling on FAT volumes
- Page Down-key Input panel remapping works properly

and more small fixes here and there..

Bugs introduced in 1.3.3 fixed:

- AVIOutput out of sync fix
- CPU emulation condition code fix
- Fixed handle leak in bsdsocket and AHI
- Sound pitch shifting in VSync-mode and other sound tweaks

Major new features:

- uaeserial.device introduced. Multi-port serial device, unit numbers are directly mapped to PC serial ports (unit 0 = COM0, 1 = COM1 etc..)
- Improved serial port detection, virtual devices also supported
- Improved Catweasel MK3/4 non-Windows driver support
- Improved debugger features
- Sound system is not anymore reinitialized when losing/gaining focus
- 1M (1024KB) ROM image support
- Sound volume configuration setting also sets AHI audio volume (previously was Paula audio only)

And more..

SOURCE: www.winuae.net