If he has access to ACORN Risc system he should be able to transfer the contents of an Atari formatted disc to a fat12 formatted disk quite easily. They can read, write and format Atari disk media.

GabrielKnight123 wrote on 2021-08-08, 04:48:

I read there is "Gemulator Explorer" or "Floppy Imager" will these work on his XP PC?

Yes, that works (I tried) . Gemulator Explorer also has a special 2k/XP floppy driver that can be used as a substitute for the normal floppy driver.
That special driver allows reading more exotic formats.

Anyway, in case the Atari diskettes was formatted with a TOS older than 1.04 (Rainbow TOS) or uses an odd capacity,
things might be a bit tricky.

Because, starting with Rainbow TOS, the Atari ST started to use a MS-DOS compatible filesystem (FAT12).
The previous versions also used FAT before, but with differences.

In such a case, you can try Disk2FDI. It's primarily useful for Amiga floppies, but Atari disks may work, too.
It runs on DOS and needs two diskette drives and a blank floppy.
It really works, I've made a video years ago..
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GOp-_Tmo4TE

The idea is to trick the floppy controller.
Variable speeds aren't something the PC floppy controller was intended to support.

Alternatively, it might be possible to use TOSBOX.
That's a DOS-based emulator for the Atari TOS operating system.
It's like a spiritual sibling of DOSBox.
Unlike all these ATARI ST emulators, it's an high-level approach that focuses on emulating TOS.
It also has floppy support, if memory serves (I'm not certain).
If so, it could be used to read or duplicate the diskette.
It supports booting TOS 1.04 and 2.x, so maybe it can correctly read the older Atari diskette format.
It also supports folders as drives, if memory serves. So yeah, a lot like DOSBox! 😁

Edit: Please make sure the floppies are all write-protected.

Caluser2000 wrote on 2021-08-08, 05:14:

If he has access to ACORN Risc system he should be able to transfer the contents of an Atari formatted disc to a fat16 formatted disk quite easily. They can read, write and format Atari disk media.

Yeah, these Acorns are really neat. 😎
I really wished they were more popular over here in Europe.

Edit: Screenshot attached.

Jo22 wrote on 2021-08-08, 05:41:

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GabrielKnight123 wrote on 2021-08-08, 04:48:

I read there is "Gemulator Explorer" or "Floppy Imager" will these work on his XP PC?

In such a case, you can try Disk2FDI. It's primarily useful for Amiga floppies, but Atari disks may work, too.
It runs on DOS and needs two diskette drives and a blank floppy.
It really works, I've made a video years ago..
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GOp-_Tmo4TE

It wont work with Atari disks at all unfortunately. X86 and Atari drives are the same. Amiga drives are not the same as anything else.

An ACORN emulator may do the job. This one is very good http://b-em.bbcmicro.com/arculator/

I haven't tried this one yet. http://arcem.sourceforge.net/

We're going to try the first two gemulator and floppy imager tonight over the phone I'll read all the documentation first I'm hoping without reading anything about them that they just read the disks instead of convert them in case of an unsuccessful convert, thanks all

Caluser2000 wrote on 2021-08-08, 05:51:

Amiga drives are not the same as anything else.

The drives themselves aren't a million miles off, PC drives can be modded to be Amiga drives, it's the controller that's a lot more flexible, whereas the PC controller can only do things one way.