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There's some similar open projects worth mentioning.

Arduino-based, can read/write regular Amiga floppies but not much more: http://amiga.robsmithdev.co.uk/

STM32-based, can deal with pretty much everything: https://github.com/keirf/Greaseweazle/wiki

BTW, I have a branch of the FluxEngine client library which can also talk to a Greaseweazle, so if you have one of those you should --- soon, I hope --- be able to use the FluxEngine client to write Mac disks on a Greaseweazle.

That's very cool!

Please do try and get that upstreamed.

edit: I just realized you're the author in the first place!

> Arduino-based, can read/write regular Amiga floppies but not much more: http://amiga.robsmithdev.co.uk/

I have one of these - I've put it and a 3.5" drive into an old USB HDD enclosure. It works really well. I have about 1,000+ old Amiga floppies that I'm slowly archiving.

Yes, it does this job well: Basic Amiga floppy reading and writing. And thus I recommend to anyone who already has an Arduino (and doesn't have e.g. a stm32) and needs to write Amiga floppies to bootstrap the Amiga they just obtained somewhere.

The point to GreaseWeazle and FluxEngine is that they aren't Amiga specific, they can handle the weirdest formats, dump copy-protected formats as-is for preservation and recover data from damaged and otherwise unreadable disks.

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