Real Floppy Drive

[Caldor]

I got a GreaseWeasel and tested it with the DrawBridge version of WinUAE. I hope they add the DrawBridge support to the official version of WinUAE soon. Works really well, even copy protected games. Or at least they are non-AmigaDOS games, which I did not think it would support from what Rob described on the DrawBridge site. Next I need to test it with AmiBerry. Really hoping this can with with the MiSTer.

[NightShadowPT]

Hey everyone, has there been any progress on getting a GreaseWeasel (or other) working with the MiSTer?

Would really love to get my PC disks working with AO486 and my Amiga disks with Minimig

[flynnsbit]

You can create an empty .img file like USB_Floppy.img, add that to your AO486 folder. Then on the linux side run

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ln -s /dev/sda /meida/fat/games/AO486/USB_FLOPPY.IMG

where /dev/sda is what shows up when you plug in your usb floppy drive. Then just mount usb_floppy in the core with a floppy disk in. I had some buffer issues but it worked.

[bbond007]

You can create an empty .img file like USB_Floppy.img, add that to your AO486 folder. Then on the linux side run...

Would really love to get my PC disks working with AO486 and my Amiga disks with Minimig

Unfortunately, that won't work on Minimig core. These USB floppy drives don't understand Amiga (880KB) disk encoding format. However, It may work on the Atari ST core which uses the same 720K format as the PC.

[flynnsbit]

Oh I forgot about that.

[Arek0xff]

Any luck with any solutions for supporting floppy drive?

[Malor]

There's a guy who figured out how to drive an Amiga-compatible floppy drive via USB, here:

https://amiga.robsmithdev.co.uk/

That's intended for use with Windows and WinUAE, and it works nicely there. RMC did a video about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ0g7lQQVus

I bet that could be interfaced with Minimig. The big problem right now is that the chips to make it are impossible to source.

[SpaceFlightOrange]

There's a guy who figured out how to drive an Amiga-compatible floppy drive via USB, here:

https://amiga.robsmithdev.co.uk/

That's intended for use with Windows and WinUAE, and it works nicely there. RMC did a video about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ0g7lQQVus

I bet that could be interfaced with Minimig. The big problem right now is that the chips to make it are impossible to source.

He’s already working on it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S1kkOexjyg