greaseweazle
Tools for accessing a floppy drive at the raw flux level (by keirf)
ArduinoFloppyDiskReader
DrawBridge aka Arduino Amiga Floppy Disk Reader/Writer - Hardware and software interface for accessing Amiga disks (read/write ADF and SCP) on non-Amiga hardware (by RobSmithDev)
| greaseweazle | ArduinoFloppyDiskReader | |
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| 72 | 22 | |
| 857 | 215 | |
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| 8.3 | 3.5 | |
| 13 days ago | about 1 month ago | |
| Python | C++ | |
| The Unlicense | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
greaseweazle
Posts with mentions or reviews of greaseweazle.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-19.
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Bit banging a 3.5" Floppy Drive
Take a look at the Greaseweazle https://github.com/keirf/greaseweazle to see what a really high-end solution in this space looks like. It's intended as a from-scratch alternative to the beter known KryoFlux.
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Everything I know about floppy disks
If you get yourself a greaseweazle (or have an stm32 blue pill laying around) it will allow you to create a disk image of the disks over usb
https://github.com/keirf/greaseweazle
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5.25“ Floppy Disk Imaging Manual (2018) [pdf]
Seems to use an older, non-openhardware solution.
These days, there's GreaseWeazle[0], setting the standard.
0. https://github.com/keirf/Greaseweazle
- I'm currently considering getting a pc 9801rx.
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Backing up a few disks
Any PC floppy drive (they shipped in large numbers, so not expensive or hard to find), connected with GreaseWeazle.
- Is there an easy solution to making copies of a Floppy?
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A Multi-Format Cross-Platform Floppy for 5.25“ Floppy Day
Note that the SCP raw flux format can be read/written with the open source GreaseWeazle[0].
0. https://github.com/keirf/greaseweazle/wiki/Supported-Image-T...
- 5.25" floppy disk not possible via usb?
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Help to open a file on amiga 500+
Get a GreaseWeazle. They are cheap and well worth the hassle.
- Looking for internal Floppy Disk Reader for use on Modern PC
ArduinoFloppyDiskReader
Posts with mentions or reviews of ArduinoFloppyDiskReader.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-22.
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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?
When comparing greaseweazle and ArduinoFloppyDiskReader you can also consider the following projects:
archivists-guide-to-kryoflux - An un-official user guide for the KryoFlux written by archivists, for archivists
vAmiga - vAmiga is a user-friendly Amiga 500, 1000, 2000 emulator for macOS
fluxengine - PSOC5 floppy disk imaging interface
lucidgloves - Arduino/ESP32 based DIY VR Haptic gloves. Compatible with SteamVR via OpenGloves.
flashfloppy - Floppy drive emulator for Gotek hardware
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.
LaunchGreaseWeazle - Simple program for windows to run the command line Greaseweazle (gw.exe)
amiberry - Optimized Amiga emulator for Linux/macOS
OpenFlops - Open-Hardware Floppy Drive Simulator
usbamigafloppy - USB floppy controller for Amiga disks
Adafruit_Floppy
greaseweazle vs archivists-guide-to-kryoflux
ArduinoFloppyDiskReader vs vAmiga
greaseweazle vs fluxengine
ArduinoFloppyDiskReader vs lucidgloves
greaseweazle vs flashfloppy
ArduinoFloppyDiskReader vs fs-uae
greaseweazle vs LaunchGreaseWeazle
ArduinoFloppyDiskReader vs amiberry
greaseweazle vs OpenFlops
ArduinoFloppyDiskReader vs usbamigafloppy
greaseweazle vs Adafruit_Floppy
ArduinoFloppyDiskReader vs flashfloppy