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Offline TekoneiricTopic starter

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Hardware Floppy Emulation
« on: July 08, 2004, 09:46:21 PM »
Has anyone used a hardware floppy emulator with the Amiga? Here is a link for a floppy emulator.

http://www.mesanet.com/diskcardinfo.html

What would be nice is to have a second write channel to the device that would allow you read/write the floppy image file stored on the device's memory seperately. It would allow for quick loading and selection of floppy images.
 

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Re: Hardware Floppy Emulation
« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2004, 09:50:22 PM »
there is something called Virtual Floppy that saves a floppy image to disk and is accessible like a disk..  
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Re: Hardware Floppy Emulation
« Reply #2 on: July 09, 2004, 04:32:44 AM »
Yea but I doubt you could run a lot of games from it. I think a better software alternative would be something that would extract a floppy image and put it into an executable wrapper.

I've always thought that a useful feature for the Amiga OS is the ability to see a single NDOS floppy as a file which would be executed directly from WB or copied to the hard drive and executed from there.
 

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Re: Hardware Floppy Emulation
« Reply #3 on: July 09, 2004, 07:45:59 AM »
UAE.

Other than that it won't happen.