USB vintage floppy emulator

[alexh]

This project is very old. It's been "finished" for several years.

The developer is a very good engineer and the product reportadly works well, however the PCB design is rather clunky.

If only the PCB had been designed to be the same form factor as an FDD it could have gone inside the computer instead of the FDD!

If the USB connector had been a mini-USB connector the cable could have been inserted through the hole in the computer case left for the floppy disk.

[alexh]

Speelgoedmannetje wrote:
it uses the floppy port so it can't do anything but access 880kb of data.

I dunno if that is strictly true. I would imagine you could go beyond 880Kbytes if you wanted to.

[alexh]

The only thing being actively talked about is the open-source Cyclone 20.

This can write back disks with copy protection.

The idea was to expand to perform floppy disk emulation.