New external floppy drives

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New external floppy drive for Amiga now available for preorder at RetroAmi shop! The drives are manufactured by Sakura company, which previously has successfully completed the project of PCMCIA SRAM expansions.

The drives are compatible with all classic Amiga models equipped with external disk drive connector. The only version available in preorder will be shipped with PC drive mechanism, but behave exactly as original Amiga-style 880kB DD disk drives (thanks to flexibility of the interface board).

This picture shows a prototype. Final version will be painted black and have minor case corrections.

The price in preorder is 195 PLN (around $53). Note that after preorder ends, the price will increase. The drives are covered by 24-months warranty and will be shipped to users late April.

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If you make it so I can hook it up to the PC and read Amiga disks then you have a deal.

You need a Catweasel or Kyroflux device for that. As danbeaver said, it is not a problem of the floppy drive, but the controller. Typical PC floppy controller is not flexible enough to read Amiga format floppies.

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The preorder will end on Tuesday, so anyone interested still have a few days to buy the drive at a reduced price of 48 EUR!

There was a small delay in the production, but it's almost done. We hope to start delivery to RetroAmi next week.

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Would be nice if the web site worked, but C'est la vie!

If you could also be so kind, please write them a mail explaining what is broken on the site.