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Offline kollaTopic starter

Floppy troubles - the final solution?
« on: October 30, 2008, 01:58:06 AM »
I have a whole bunch of amigas that I from time to time like to fiddle with, just for the heck of it :-)

Lately though, I've been struggling with floppies. It is not the floppies that is the problem, but the drives - despite cleaning efforts and despite having a couple of kylwalda controllers, and catweasels (1 amiga and 2 PC), I now struggle to find working floppy drives, both amiga and PC drives. This would not be so bad if it wasnt for the fact that amiga machines _need_ them in order to bootstrap installation.

I know I can plug the harddrives into PCs and install them from UAE, but it isnt really convenient. What I really miss is a floppy drive emulator using memory card, that can replace the floppy drives. I know people have been working on such projects, but did anything ever materialize into something ... buyable?

Ideally it should ofcourse be able to emulate all 4 drives in one go :-)
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