- OPEN SOURCE FLOPPY DISK EMULATOR SOFTWARE UPGRADE
- OPEN SOURCE FLOPPY DISK EMULATOR SOFTWARE SOFTWARE
Emulators can also be used as a higher-performance replacement for mechanical floppy disk drives.
An alternative is to use a floppy disk hardware emulator, a device which appears to be a standard floppy drive to the old equipment by interfacing directly to the floppy disk controller, while storing data in another medium such as a USB thumb drive, Secure Digital card, or a shared drive on a computer network. Floppy disks themselves are fragile, or may need to be replaced often.
OPEN SOURCE FLOPPY DISK EMULATOR SOFTWARE SOFTWARE
Proper operation may require operating system, software and data to be read and written from and to floppies, forcing users to maintain floppy drives on supporting systems.įloppy disks and floppy drives are gradually going out of production, and replacement of malfunctioning drives, and the systems hosting them, is becoming increasingly difficult.
OPEN SOURCE FLOPPY DISK EMULATOR SOFTWARE UPGRADE
Older equipment may be difficult to replace or upgrade because of cost, requirement for continuous availability or unavailable upgrades. Older models of computers, electronic keyboards and industrial automation often used floppy disk drives for data transfer. OpenFlops is an Open Hardware Floppy Disk Drive emulator/simulator. This is why I am adding the following restriction (inspired by DiagROM): if this board is sold at more than 5€ + production and component costs, 25% MUST be donated to a LEGITIMATE charity of some kind, like curing cancer for example. Note that you are still allowed to sell these boards, I have nothing against that as long as you do so at an "ethical" price. If all you want is to get boards made, I would really appreciate if you did it as explained in the Support section in order to get them cheaply while supporting the project, i.e.: just click on this button: I am no longer providing ready-to-use gerber files, but you can still generate them from the KiCad project or ask me for the password, if you think you don't fit the above statement. I still believe in free software and open hardware, and that is why my projects will remain as such. Instead of this, what I achieved was actually fuelling greedy people grabbing my work, making boards for a couple of bucks and the selling them at outrageous prices ($15 for a badly-soldered OpenC64Cart that costs $2 to make is just ridiculous). The original reason behind my projects was to allow anyone to make their own retrocomputing accessories cheaply. Note that the released gerber files are password-protected. THIS RELEASE HAS NOT BEEN TESTED YET, but since the modifications are relatively minor, it should work. This release fixes all the minor issues found in v1pre, adds a pull-down resistor for BOOT1 (which should improve flashability) and has a few modifications here and there that should allow the board to be assembled automatically.