oldskool support -> [central point option board] edit / delete

A famous late-80s disk imaging ISA board, and the software to support it.

to floppy imaging pc retrocomputing software ... on 13 September 2015

Working with Diskettes edit / delete

Good -- if very PC-centric -- overview of 80s floppy formats.

to archiving disk floppy pc retrocomputing ... on 03 September 2014

AMIGA RPI DRIVE edit / delete

I'd been wondering if you could use a Raspberry Pi for floppy archiving, by getting the DMA engine to sample an input pin. This appears to be doing the same thing in the other direction (emulating a floppy drive), so I'll add that to the to-do list...

to amiga disk emulation floppy imaging raspberry-pi retrocomputing ... on 01 December 2013

GCR decoding on the fly edit / delete

As it says -- very neat.

to 1541 6502 c64 floppy gcr retrocomputing ... on 15 April 2013

Commodore Software Protection Library : Free Texts : Download & Streaming : Internet Archive edit / delete

Various scanned documents relating to Commodore (mostly C64) copy-protection.

to amiga commodore copy-protection floppy retrocomputing ... on 15 January 2013

How to identify an unknown disk using Fdutils edit / delete

Pretty good description of how to use the Linux raw floppy command interface to read unusual floppies. (Presumably useful for other floppy command interfaces.)

to disk floppy imaging retrocomputing ... on 14 January 2013

Catweasel Floppy Read/Write Tools edit / delete

Open-source code to decode FM and MFM floppies using a Catweasel. But the code's retargetable (see the previous bookmark), and contains excellent documentation of how the encoding schemes work. (I now find myself wanting a CW/Discferret to play with...)

to floppy fm imaging mfm retrocomputing ... on 11 January 2013

First results with the DiscFerret / Magpie combination edit / delete

DiscFerret version of cw2dmk, the open-source Catweasel disk image conversion tool.

to floppy imaging retrocomputing ... on 11 January 2013

DAVES OLD COMPUTERS - Disk/Software Image Archive edit / delete

ImageDisk, freeware tool that supports many FM/MFM disk formats under MS-DOS.

to floppy imaging retrocomputing ... on 11 January 2013

Power of Asm : HxC Floppy Emulator edit / delete

A floppy drive emulator that works with multiple 80s machines. Neat project; it would be worth building one...

to electronics floppy retrocomputing ... on 03 June 2009

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