>>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 :) -- adrian/witchy Owner of Binary Dinosaurs, the UK's biggest home computer collection? t: @binarydinosaurs f: facebook.com/binarydinosaurs w: www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk On 14 July 2018 at 22:34, Grant Taylor via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > They've let me bring a lot of my collection back to life. >> > > 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 >
