FlashFloppy
FlashFloppy is a floppy-drive emulator for the ubiquitous Gotek hardware.
Connect to retro machines just like a real floppy drive but use disk images on a modern USB stick!
- Say goodbye to old and unreliable floppy disks
- Download and play from the disk-image archives for your retro machines
FlashFloppy is Free and Open-Source Software.
Platforms support
Computers: Acorn Archimedes, Acorn BBC Micro, Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW, Amstrad PPC, Atari ST, Commodore Amiga, DEC, Dragon, IBM 3174, IBM PC, IBM PS/2, Kaypro, Memotech, Microware, MSX, NEC PC-98, Sharp, Sinclair QL, Spectrum, Tandy Color Computer, TI-99/4A, TSC Flex, UKNC, DVK.
Electronic synthesizers: Akai, E-mu ESI-32, Ensoniq, General Music (GEM), Korg, Kurzweil, Roland, Sequential Circuits Prophet 3000, Yamaha.
Image formats
Directly reads and writes:
- ADF (Commodore Amiga)
- ADM, ADL, ADF, DSD, SSD (Acorn DFS and ADFS)
- ATR (Atari 8-bit)
- D81 (Commodore 64 1581)
- DSK (Amstrad CPC, Spectrum +3, Sam Coupe, Microbee)
- FDI, HDM (NEC PC-98)
- IMG, IMA, DSK (IBM MFM Raw Sector)
- JVC, DSK (Tandy Color Computer 'CoCo')
- MBD (Spectrum MB02)
- MGT (Spectrum DISCiPLE/+D)
- OPD (Spectrum Opus Discovery)
- OUT (Roland)
- SDU (SAB Diskette Utility)
- ST (Atari ST)
- TRD (Spectrum TR-DOS)
- V9T9, DSK (TI-99/4A)
- VDK (Dragon)
- HFE, HFEv3 (Universal)
- XDF (FAT-based eXtended Disk Format, 3.5" HD 1840kB)
Configuration
FlashFloppy has many configurable settings which can be specified in an INI-style configuration file called FF.CFG, placed in the root folder or FF/ subfolder of your USB drive.
An example is provided in the examples/ subfolder of the FlashFloppy distribution.
