Maybe you might be able to hook up with the guys with Amiga Forever (Cloanto) and see if you can get DOpus (for Windows(of course)) to work inside of Amiga Forever so that you can easily deal with files on the Windows and easily copy them to Amiga Forever virtual Had Disk and vis versa. Also, if you are running VMware or running other OS, this could also be usefull, especially if you are running Win XP Mode in Win7/8. It's only a suggestion. This might be asking too much?
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I'm not sure what you're asking for here.
Opus already works fine in VMware and other Windows PC virtual machines. The virtual machines wouldn't be very good if it didn't.
Modern versions of Opus won't run inside an Amiga emulator because they are not Amiga software.
Maybe you mean being able to treat virtual disks as archives? That may come for VHD, but will probably be read-only if it does, and you can already mount VHDs as real drives using Windows itself.
I don't think there's much demand for mounting Amiga drives these days, but Opus has a VFS plugin API so anyone could implement support if they really want it and know how to program.
I was totally unaware of this. You mean I can use DOpus in Windows to copy and transfer files from most emulator software like Amiga Forever? All I want to do it run DOpus in Windows, and when I download files for the Amiga (on Windows), I can use DOpus to copy the files I downloaded in Windows and put them inside the Amiga HDD file? I'm not using a real Amiga, just Amiga Forever. For better understanding of what I want to do is when I download jpg picture files or I take pictures using my iPhone or Android, I can use DOpus to copy the pictures to the PC, then copy them to the Amiga VHD created with Amiga Forever, or better yet, copy the pictures from my mobile device directly to the VHD file in Windows?
Thanks Again, I hope that you continue to keep DOpus upto date in Windows You are doing a great job at doing this now.
VHD disks can be mounted by Windows, but Amiga emulators do not use the VHD format, as far as I know. (Even if they did, you can only mount a VHD that is formatted in a way that Windows understands -- e.g. NTFS -- so you'd still need either an Amiga filesystem driver for Windows of an Amiga VFS plugin for Opus.)
VHD is a specific format, not a generic term for any virtual harddisk files/images. Here's an article with more information on it, if you are curious: Wikipedia: VHD (file format).
The way to do it seems to be Amiga Explorer which is part of some versions of Amiga Forever and can also be bought separately and trialled for free. That makes the Amiga HDDs visible to Windows as virtual folders ("shell namespace extensions" to use the technical term). They even have an example screenshot showing the Windows version of Opus accessing the Amiga drives, although it looks like an old versions of Opus so you might want to take advantage of the free trial version to make sure everything still works together. (The page mentions Windows 7 and 8 and has both 32-bit and 64-bit versions, which is a good sign.)
Thanks! We have no plans to stop.