14 Jul
2018
14 Jul
'18
3:40 p.m.
>On 07/14/2018 02:43 PM, Adrian Graham via cctalk
wrote:
I love them, I see FlashFloppy has also been mentioned
which is also
excellent. Keir Fraser (flashfloppy) is constantly updating it to add new
support for formats suggested by folk either on the facebook group or on
the github repository. It will support a lot of image formats natively and
can be configured as IBM or Shugart interface though only as DS0 or DS1.
*nod*
I really like that FlashFloppy will allow the same
single device to
support both 1.44 MB and 720 kB floppies.
Aside: I've got to say, I've never really
messed with the various numbers
associated with floppy drives, but the 1536 really
surprised me.
I apparently have a lot of history to learn at some
point.
Since I got my first Gotek last year I've learned more about floppy drives
and disks than I ever thought would be neccesary but there's SO many
different formats out there that I never knew about. In the 80s my exposure
to floppies was all DEC so I knew about hard/soft sectored drives and that
RX50s had to be read in an RX50 drive. PC wise it was all IBM-related so a
disk from one machine would work in another (alignment issues
notwithstanding). I'd used CP/M at school but assumed all CP/M machines
used the same disk format. Wrong!
Fortunately I still find learning fun :)
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On 14 July 2018 at 22:34, Grant Taylor via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
On 07/14/2018 02:43 PM, Adrian Graham via cctalk
wrote:
Yay.
I'm messing with a machine that I can likely get the floppy drive to work
(it's only 25 years old). But I have exactly one other floppy drive and no
floppy disks that I trust. So I figured that I might as well convert to
emulation and catch up with all the images that I'm using in virtualization.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
I love them, I see FlashFloppy has also been
mentioned which is also
excellent. Keir Fraser (flashfloppy) is constantly updating it to add new
support for formats suggested by folk either on the facebook group or on
the github repository. It will support a lot of image formats natively and
can be configured as IBM or Shugart interface though only as DS0 or DS1.
*nod*
I really like that FlashFloppy will allow the same single device to
support both 1.44 MB and 720 kB floppies.
Aside: I've got to say, I've never really messed with the various numbers
associated with floppy drives, but the 1536 really surprised me.
I apparently have a lot of history to learn at some point.
They've let me bring a lot of my collection back to life.