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Re: Amiga floppy drives
« on: January 27, 2015, 10:13:19 PM »
Quote from: pyrre;782462
I have been wondering on something for quite some time;
These modern days we have the catweasel floppy controller that lets us use modern pc floppy drives to read and write amiga disks on pcs.
(if I'm mistaken, please correct me)

Is there any way of making a board that sits in between the floppy port (of any amiga) and a modern floppy drive. and that lets us use it for dd and hd floppies?
lets face it, the old drives are dying and there are not made any replacements. but cheap pc floppies are still in abundance.. (i have somewhat 20 drives collecting dust... though, some are broken)


IIRC, there is such a thing, check aminet. But Amiga external FDDs are not expensive, and you can easily replace its drive with standard PC one, after modifying READY signal, at least for DD.
HD is still overpriced, IMHO.
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Re: Amiga floppy drives
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2015, 08:24:04 AM »
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Who uses floppy drives these days?


Just stick all your games on either a solid state HD or go for a floppy emulator....job done :)


enjoy:
http://www.wired.com/2009/05/five-disk-floppy-raid-4mb-of-blistering-fast-storage/
Better sorry than worry.