New SD Floppy Emulator

[amigean]

'nice idea' doesn't even begin to describe just how good this is.

Very, very elegant implementation, this should bring flash based storage to all amigas and breathe new life to mothballed A500s.

A more general version bring an end the inflationary pressures on HD FDDs (I've been looking for one for my A3000 for ages but I might settle for something like this instead).

[amigean]

the author says he has no plans to commercialise it himself, but would be open to receiving offers from interested companies. The question is what company could have an interest in this? Jens et al. or maybe even AmigaKit?

There's no clue as to what the ultimate cost of that might be, which would ultimately determine the size of the market. I expect the keyboard interface and video overlay circuitry don't come cheap. A generalised version could be made to appeal to all sorts of scenarios where floppies used to dominate (music synths, embedded PCs, retro computers) and then one is talking business...

[amigean]

Hi retromania,

thanks for writing here - and welcome to a.org!

Congratulations on a fantastic job - I very much hope someone with the required skills and experience will help you commercialise this - like I said above the market is potentially much greater than a few amiga nostalgics: Floppies are being phased out, but the ability to convert a FDD controller to a SD-card reader, together with a fancy interface overlayed over RGB is no trivial matter and a good number of people would be willing to pay handsomely for such.

Granted, the response here in a.org has been a bit underwhelming - the place is a shadow of its former self. Have you advertised this in other forums too? Try Amibay, Amigaworld.net, EAB - and what about non-amiga forums? I'll try to spread the word too.

Well done again - and please stick around.