You can create blank ADF files with WinUAE in seconds. I know this is 32 years early and might affect very little or nothing, but it is worth mentioning in case anyone stumbles on this issue and searches the web for a solution.īeyond January 19th, 2046 at 03:14:07 (one of the Amiga's end of time dates), all floppies created by current WinUAE versions will have a date that might not function correctly with applications and games. That I know of, at least Workbench 1.0 updates its date automatically to the most recent date it finds on the mounted drives. ![]() I don't have other mock date emulated setups (1.x to 3.x) to try this on now. Here's an example just by inserting a new floppy in df2. ![]() There is no file in the floppy which WB would read the date off of, it is in the floppy's meta information. WinUAE puts this date in a 32-bit block ($6E014-$6E017) on the adf file. There are some other changes from blank adf to blank adf in the region $6E1AB to $6E1EF. Given this situation, it would be safer (from a user perspective) to offer a Mock Floppy Creation Date option in *UAE user interfaces (with a help bubble referring to end of time issues). Change the $6E014-$6E017 block to a valid date one in a hex editor.insert the "post end of time floppy" in the drive created by WinUAE, make sure the emulated system date is in a valid mock one, format the floppy in the emulated system.dd an adf, followed by formatting it within the mock time AmigaOS environment (dd doesn't create an OFS formatted floppy).keep a blank floppy with a valid date archived.And a mock emulated clock option somewhere in the hardware options too, btw.
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