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.
Contents
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)
Although it is not mentioned on the website of the author, FlashFloppy also appears to work on Oric computers. Source
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.
Compatibility
FlashFloppy is directly compatible with most, but not all, Gotek devices with a 34-pin header.
Be sure to check that page first before buying a Gotek drive: https://github.com/keirf/flashfloppy/wiki/Gotek-Models
