ADF file extension. How to open and convert files with ADF file suffix

There are 10 other file types using
the ADF file extension!

.adf - ArcView ARC/INFO coverage data [common]

.adf - I-DEAS associated data

.adf - A.R.S.E.N.A.L game data

.adf - Actual Drawing data

.adf - Antenna data

.adf - MicroSim PCBoard photoplot aperture definition data

.adf - ReliaSoft ALTA data

.adf - ASTRA chromatography data

.adf - Grand Theft Auto: Vice City radio station

.adf - Act! data

ADF file extension - Amiga disk format

What is adf file? How to open adf files?

File type specification:

Emulator file type

Archive and compressed file type

The adf file extension is used for Amiga Disk file format used by Amiga computers and emulators to store images of disks.

Before it was known as ADF, it was used in commercial game production, backup and disk virtualization. Technically speaking, ADF is not really a file format but actually a track-by-track dump of the disk data as read by the Amiga operating system, and so the format is really fixed-width AmigaDOS data tracks appended one after another and held in a file.

ADF is the open source Amiga floppy disk image format introduced with the first emulation applications. It is not compressed by itself, and supports very few copy protection schemes. Games in ADF format are usually "cracked" variants which had their copy protection removed. ADF is a simple and robust format that is widely supported, and can be compressed well by the file system.

The default software associated to open adf file:

Amiga Forever

Company or developer:
Cloanto IT srl

Amiga Forever is an Award-Winning Amiga emulator, preservation and support package brought to you by Cloanto, Amiga developers since 1986.

Help how to open:

Several archiving tools, such as The Unarchivers are able to work with the *.adf files.

How to convert:

As far as we know, this .adf file type can't be converted to any other file format. This is usually the case of system, configuration, temporary, or data files containing data exclusive to only one software and used for its own purposes. Also some proprietary or closed file formats cannot be converted to more common file types in order to protect the intellectual property of the developer, which is for example the case of some DRM-protected multimedia files.

Find conversions from adf file:

File identification strings:

HEX code: 44 4F 53
ASCII code: DOS

List of software applications associated to the .adf file extension

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and possible program actions that can be done with the file: like open adf file, edit adf file, convert adf file, view adf file, play adf file etc. (if exist software for corresponding action in File-Extensions.org's database).

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Software that open adf file - Amiga disk format

Programs supporting the exension adf on the main platforms Windows, Mac, Linux or mobile. Click on the link to get more information about listed programs for open adf file action.