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flashfloppy
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Flop rock: inside the underground floppy disk music scene
FYI (or others using retro equipment with floppy disks) there's a cheap floppy disk emulator called Gotek that can be connected in place of your 3.5" drive and has an USB connector where you can put a thumb drive with disk images.
For that device there's an Open Source firmware project called FlashFloppy [0] that enhances its features. And I've found today that there's an Open Hardware reimplementation [1] of the Gotek hardware that's compatible with the FlashFloppy Firmware.
0: https://github.com/keirf/flashfloppy
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Bit banging a 3.5" Floppy Drive
The other side of this coin is emulating a floppy drive in software: https://github.com/keirf/flashfloppy
- GoTek Floppy Drive Firmware Flash Question on USB A to USB A cable for Amiga
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Help needed: Gifted A500 with unknown status
Flashfloppy.
- Amiga 500 Project
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What's the most unpleasant software that you've had to package up and how did you work around it?
If you're not too particular, you can pick up a GoTek unit for $30 and use it as-is, with no firmware or hardware mods.
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A1200 Gotek and mouse questions
For wiring see the diagrams on this page https://github.com/keirf/FlashFloppy/wiki/Hardware-Mods
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Why the Floppy Disk Just Won’t Die
I prefer to retrofit old equipment with more reliable technology.
Highly recommend Keir Fraser's Flash Floppy project: https://github.com/keirf/flashfloppy
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Gotek Floppy Emulator on Windows 95
I thought so, too, when I got mine. Some people do the modifications before selling them on ebay or wherever and so they are effectively plug and play, but I discovered that unless that's the case I needed to do some stuff to make it work. As the other user suggested, you want to get FlashFloppy. The installation process was a little involved to be honest, but not impossible with the step by step instructions I had found. Unfortunately I can't easily link you anything because there are different versions of Flashfloppy and different versions of the Gotek and different steps depending on what you have. I'd start by looking up flashfloppy and looking through the various instructions. Here is a place to start: https://github.com/keirf/FlashFloppy/wiki/Firmware-Programming
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I have a A1000. My Kickstart disk doesn't work. Should I just go buy new/old stock?
Specifically, one that supports Flashfloppy.
ArduinoFloppyDiskReader
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Greaseweazle
Also have a look at drawbridge which even supports live loading Amiga disks in an emulator. https://amiga.robsmithdev.co.uk/
- Origins of the 3.5in Floppy Disk [video]
- Backing up a few disks
- How convert amiga floppies to ADF?
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Community Question Of The Week - Episode 120
For more info: https://amiga.robsmithdev.co.uk/
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Amiga Forever
You can convert a cheap USB floppy drive into one that reads Amiga disks using a Drawbridge from https://amiga.robsmithdev.co.uk/ - I've done this and it works.
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I got to rescue A500, 1084S, and 215 disks
This seems to be Rob's official site?
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Copying software from modern computers
For the second case I recommend Rob Smith's DrawBridge (previously known as ArduinoFloppyDiskReader): https://amiga.robsmithdev.co.uk/ It's a simple arduino-based project, which allows you to use a regular PC floppy drive to write (and read) amiga disk images. You can make your own, or wait your turn for Rob to sell you one pre-assembled. I made my own and it works great.
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Amiga500 Mini & Floppy's
Forget the a500 mini, it's not worth your time. You can use this cheap contraption to grab images of all your old floppy disks: https://amiga.robsmithdev.co.uk/ and just load them up on an emulator like fs-uae, winuae, or whatever, which you can run on any PC you like. The A500mini is just an ARM computer in an amiga-shaped box running the same emulator, without a keyboard, without giving you all the options the emulator can handle, and you have to pay for it... The point approaches 0 pretty fast.
- Pi1541 + USB 3.5" floppy drive
What are some alternatives?
OpenFlops - Open-Hardware Floppy Drive Simulator
greaseweazle - Tools for accessing a floppy drive at the raw flux level
vAmiga - vAmiga is a user-friendly Amiga 500, 1000, 2000 emulator for macOS
Amiga-Digital-Video - Add a digital video port to vintage Amiga machines
lucidgloves - Arduino/ESP32 based DIY VR Haptic gloves. Compatible with SteamVR via OpenGloves.
TRS80gotek - Configuring a TRS-80 Model 4 to book from a gotek floppy emulator and FreHD system
fs-uae - Cross-platform Amiga emulator with a slight focus on gaming, but also with solid support for productivity apps including just-in-time (JIT) compilation.
hstwb-installer - A set of scripts to automate installation of Amiga OS, Kickstart roms and packages to new or existing Amiga HDF files
amiberry - Optimized Amiga emulator for Linux/macOS
amiga-stuff
usbamigafloppy - USB floppy controller for Amiga disks