Floppy drive emulator for old computers

July 31, 2010 | By admin In PIC32 |

If you really need a floppy drive, but need some high capacity reliable media or have more control over process, try this Floppy drive emulator based on PIC32 microcontroller. It actually uses a SD/MMS memory to store information. It was specially designed for Amiga computer, but can be used for other computers as well.

Floppy drive emulator connects to keyboard and monitor so this way microcontroller could produce an overlay menu for virtual floppy configuration. Emulator even has a floppy disk sound emulator by using a piezo speaker. Floppy emulator can emulate two floppy drives at same time and can coexist with another real floppy drive. It supports full FAT32 file system and can understand SDHC cards. Real Atari fans should find this project really useful.

7 Comments so far

  1. alushka on August 25th, 2011

    Please, sent me the code and schematics to my email.

    Thanks.

  2. tazoo on November 24th, 2011

    I want to work on this project, can you send me this
    thanks

  3. Moe on December 19th, 2011

    Please send this code/schematics to my email address.

    Thanks.

  4. joselito on January 26th, 2012

    I really liked this project, I would like if possible send to my email, tanks
    my email is joselito_oliveira@me.com

  5. Christopher Weinberg on July 9th, 2012

    Also requesting code and schematics for this great project!

    thanks in advance

  6. Arturo on December 30th, 2012

    Useful idea and suiteable for my old CPC. I would like ask you for sending this code and schema to my email address. Of course If you agree with it.
    Thanks in advance.

  7. davoudi on January 24th, 2013

    realy i like to work with this project.i read and writ and format floppys on pc with c programming for amiga format.
    can u send me schema and code?

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