Emulating an Amiga floppy drive

***wraggster*** · July 29th, 2010, 01:16

[Retromaster's] Ultimate Floppy Emulator is a wicked display of hardware mastery. It is the culmination of several design stages aimed at replacing an Amiga floppy drive with a modern storage solution. You may be thinking that using an SD card in place of a floppy isn’t all that interesting but this hack does much more. The board, controlled by a PIC32, patches into the Amiga keyboard and monitor. This allows you to bring up an overlay menu for controlling the emulator in order to configure which virtual floppy disk is currently ‘in the drive’. He’s even gone so far as to add a piezo speaker to mimic the sounds the original drive head would make while reading a disk.

http://hackaday.com/2010/07/28/emula...-floppy-drive/

**nyder** · July 29th, 2010, 04:50

Sweet, it's nice this guy has something working decent so far. Going to have to make 2 of these, maybe. I'd like one for sure for my Atari 1024st, but possible 1 or 2 for my Amiga 1200 & 1000. =)

Got a CF card thingy for my Apple's, just need one for my C64/C128, and i'm set. =)