SAMdisk — Formats

SAMdisk supports a selection of popular disk image containers, rather than specific disk formats, meaning it automatically supports thousands of existing disk images and track formats.

The following containers types are supported for input:

• EDSK — Extended disk image (Amstrad CPC, Spectrum +3, SAM Coupé, PC).
• MGT — MGT +D/Disciple/SAM (Sinclair Spectrum / SAM Coupé).
• SAD — SAm Disk (SAM Coupé).
• SBT — Sam BooTable disk (SAM Coupé).
• SDF — Sam Disk Format (SAM Coupé).
• DS2 — Velesoft split side format (SAM Coupé).
• CPM — Pro-DOS CP/M (SAM Coupé).
• TD0 — Sydex TeleDisk (various).
• RAW — KryoFlux stream format [IBM MFM and FM only].
• SCP — SuperCard Pro stream format [IBM MFM and FM only].
• DFI — DiscFerret stream format [IBM MFM and FM only].
• IPF — Interchangeable Preservation Format [IBM MFM only].
• HFE — HxC Floppy Emulator disk format [IBM MFM and FM only].
• DMK — David M Keil’s disk format (mainly TRS-80).
• IMD — Dave Dunfield’s ImageDisk utility (various).
• TRD — Beta128 disk for TR-DOS (Sinclair Spectrum).
• FDI — Full Disk Image (Sinclair Spectrum, not Disk2FDI).
• OPD — OPus Discovery (Sinclair Spectrum).
• MBD — MB-02+ Disk (Sinclair Spectrum).
• UDI — Ultra Disk Image (Sinclair Spectrum).
• SCL — Sinclair betadisk archive (Sinclair Spectrum).
• DSK — Disk image (Amstrad CPC).
• DSC — WinAPE disk image (Amstrad CPC).
• CFI — Compressed Floppy Image (Amstrad).
• BPB — FAT12/16 BIOS Parameter Block (MS-DOS, Atari ST).
• MSA — Magic Shadow Archive (Atari ST).
• D80 — Didaktik D80.
• D88 — Pasopeia D88 (NEC PC-xx).
• D81 — Commodore 1581.
• D2M — Commodore CMD FD-2000.
• D4M — Commodore CMD FD-4000.
• LIF — Logical Interchange Format (Hewlett-Packard).
• DTI — Deep Thought (Jupiter Ace).
• S24 — Sega System 24 (Arcade, 1.8M and 1.88M formats).
• RAW — raw sector dumps, identified by file size only.

The following types are supported for output of new or modified disk images, as determined by file extension:

• .dsk — Extended DSK flexible format.
• .mgt — Miles Gordon Technology +D/SAM (80/2/10/512).
• .sad — SAm Disk semi-flexible.
• .cpm — SAM Coupé Pro-DOS (80/2/9/512).
• .trd — Beta128 / TR-DOS (typically 80/2/16/256).
• .fdi — Full Disk Image flexible format (Beta128 / TR-DOS, not Disk2FDI).
• .opd — Opus Discovery (typically 40/1/18/256).
• .mbd — MB-02+ (82/2/11/1024).
• .imd — ImageDisk flexible format.
• .d81 — Commodore 1581 (80/2/10/512).
• .d88 — Pasopeia D88 (NEC PC-xx) flexible format.
• .d2m — CMD FD-2000 (81/2/10/1024).
• .d4m — Commodore CMD FD-4000 (81/2/20/1024).
• .dti — Deep Thought UART stream (80/2/1/2304).
• .lif — HP Logical Interchange Format (77/2/16/256).
• .raw — Raw sector dump in suitable regular format.

Additional formats may be added on request, if sufficient details are available.