Re: Custom floppy reading hardware interface

From: Pete Rittwage <peter_at_rittwage.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 08:09:39 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <56850.10.2.0.168.1390828179.squirrel@rittwage.com>
I don't think anyone has done any work on Apple (especially Mac) floppy
preservation, if that's what you're referring to.  This is likely due to
lack of interest.

I'm sure you can make raw images from them with Kryoflux, but decoding
them into something for use in emulation is not likely at this time unless
you write it yourself.

-
Pete Rittwage
Disk Preservation Project
http://diskpreservation.com


On Mon, January 27, 2014 4:53 am, Justin wrote:
> Has anyone seen a good solution for 3.5" commodore and Amiga floppies that
> can also deal with Apple's problematic 400k and 800k formats?
>
> Justin
>
>> On Jan 20, 2014, at 16:23, Rob Clarke <crock@clarke-family.org.uk>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> When it comes to 3.5" media, the difference between DD (600 Oe) and HD
>>> (750 Oe) apparently is less, so it may still work to format a 1.44 MB
>>> floppy disk as double density, at least for a while.
>>
>> When I was in my first summer job in 1987 (paying my Dad back the money
>> he used to buy me an Amiga 1000), I suddenly had access to a 'limitless'
>> supply of pre-formatted HD 3.5" floppies from the office store cupboard.
>> I was terribly disappointed when none of them would work reliably in the
>> Amiga, though it probably saved me from getting fired for stealing. :-)
>>
>> Years later I found out that I could make them work by wiping them with
>> a bulk-eraser (very powerful elctro-magnet) first.
>>
>> Rob
>>
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