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This is actually not a problem today, see e.g. the ipf image format and hardware such as KryoFlux:

http://info-coach.fr/atari/documents/_mydoc/IPF-Documentatio... http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Rescuing_Floppy_D...

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"Under MAME license" is unfortunately a showstopper for FOSS. Particularly unfortunate because MAME itself has started the process of moving away from that license and towards a FOSS license (see https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/README.md#licens...).

Do you know if the authors of that code would consider releasing it under a FOSS-compatible license (e.g. MIT, LGPL, or GPL, depending on preferences about copyleft)? Failing that, do you know if a FOSS library exists to read and write the IPF image format?

Neat. I knew a superior drive could copy everything, I didn't know this had become common.

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