![]() I ordered one from Lotharek in Poland (for around $110) and a few days later it arrived here in the states. Keyboards / Samplers: Ensoniq EPS and Mirage, Emax and Emax II, E-mu Emulator and Emulator II, Oberheim DPX1, Korg DSS-1, Yamaha Clavinova CVP-83S, Prophet 2000, Roland S-50 This device works with any system utilizing a Shugart / IBM PC floppy interface and, as such, sports an impressive list of compatible systems, including:Ĭomputers: Amiga, Atari ST and Falcon, Amstrad CPC464 and CPC6128, MSX2, IBM PC compatible, TI-99/4A, NEC PC88, Sharp X68000, Sam Coupe, ZX Spectrum, TRS-80, Dragon 32 and 64, ACT/Apricot, Perkin-Elmer Model 3030, Kaypro 4-84 The most flexible of these I’ve seen is the SDCard HxC Floppy Emulator. I’ve seen microcontroller-based floppy emulators that serve up disk images from flash storage arrive for many of the beloved platforms of old. Happily, some nice solutions to the retro computing fan’s floppy disk problems have started emerging in the last few years, thanks to the numerous, easy to work with microcontroller kits that have become available. But, even so and despite the charm of occasionally sliding a floppy into a drive, we’ve all long ago gotten used to launching apps from a fixed disk, making the floppy shuffle a bit of a hassle. “New” double density 5.25- and 3.5-inch floppies are basically impossible to source, though random sacks of used floppies are pretty easy to find on eBay. ![]() While floppies manufactured way back when keep their bits together far longer than you might think - around 95% of my Apple II 5.25-inch floppies from the late ’80s are fully readable - time does take its toll. One of the problems (and hassles) of playing with certain vintage computers today is their dependence on floppy disk media. ![]()
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