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28 October '''FlashFloppy''' is a floppy-drive emulator for the ubiquitous [[Gotek-Compatibility|'''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'''.
[[File:Flash floppy.jpg|1000px]]
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== 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.
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== 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)
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== 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.
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== Links ==
*[https://github.com/keirf/flashfloppy GitHub]
*[https://github.com/keirf/flashfloppy/wiki Documentation]