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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Tekoneiric on July 08, 2004, 09:46:21 PM

Title: Hardware Floppy Emulation
Post by: Tekoneiric on July 08, 2004, 09:46:21 PM

Has anyone used a hardware floppy emulator with the Amiga? Here is a link for a floppy emulator.

http://www.mesanet.com/diskcardinfo.html

What would be nice is to have a second write channel to the device that would allow you read/write the floppy image file stored on the device's memory seperately. It would allow for quick loading and selection of floppy images.

Title: Re: Hardware Floppy Emulation
Post by: TheMagicM on July 08, 2004, 09:50:22 PM

there is something called Virtual Floppy that saves a floppy image to disk and is accessible like a disk..  

Title: Re: Hardware Floppy Emulation
Post by: Tekoneiric on July 09, 2004, 04:32:44 AM

Yea but I doubt you could run a lot of games from it. I think a better software alternative would be something that would extract a floppy image and put it into an executable wrapper.

I've always thought that a useful feature for the Amiga OS is the ability to see a single NDOS floppy as a file which would be executed directly from WB or copied to the hard drive and executed from there.

Title: Re: Hardware Floppy Emulation
Post by: Piru on July 09, 2004, 07:45:59 AM

UAE.

Other than that it won't happen.