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The floppy disk emulator can provide other systems access to the data on the emulated floppy in a number of ways: Direct access to some dedicated disk partition (e.g.: a 1.44MB partition on a USB key) Floppy file system translation (e.g.: FAT12 floppy ↔ USB key folder) Floppy disk images (e.g.: raw floppy ↔ .img/.iso USB key file)
KryoFlux consists of a small hardware device, [4] [5] which is a software-programmable FDC system that runs on small ARM-based devices that connects to a floppy disk drive and a host PC over USB, and software for accessing the device. KryoFlux reads "flux transitions" from floppy disks at a very fine resolution. [6]
The C64S (C64 Software Emulator) is a Commodore 64 emulator that supports transfer to/from a 1541 disk drive. It was developed in 1994–1997 by Miha Peternel. The DISK64 is a disk transfer tool developed in 1993–1994 by Alfred Schwall. The MNIB was developed in 2000–2004 by Markus Brenner. It has been succeeded by NIBTOOLS.
FreeDOS can be booted from a floppy disk or USB flash drive [7] [8] and is designed to run well under virtualization or x86 emulation. [9] The FreeDOS project began under Jim Hall in 1994, and the first stable version was released in 2006.
A floppy hardware emulator, same size as a 3½-inch drive, provides a USB interface to the user. In 2002, most manufacturers still provided floppy disk drives as standard equipment to meet user demand for file transfer and an emergency boot device, as well as for the general secure feeling of having the familiar device. [ 17 ]
Newer devices are built with USB flash drive support. Floppy disk hardware emulators exist which effectively utilize the internal connections and physical attributes of a floppy disk drive to utilize a device where a USB flash drive emulates the storage space of a floppy disk in a solid state form, and can be divided into a number of individual ...
Amiga emulators and AmigaOS (with third-party software) can use these files as if they were virtual floppy disks. Unlimited virtual floppies could be created on modern Amigas, although WinUAE on a real PC can handle only four at a time, the maximum number of floppy drives that the Amiga hardware could have connected at any one time.
The "TIB 001" was a 3.5″ floppy drive that connected to the Commodore 64 via the expansion port, meaning that these drives were very fast. The floppy disks themselves relied on an MS-DOS disk format, and being based on cartridge allowed the Commodore 64 to boot from them automatically at start-up.