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USB floppy controller for Amiga disks

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See also: OpenFlops is an Open Hardware Floppy Disk Drive emulator/simulator. https://github.com/SukkoPera/OpenFlops

HN discussion on various open hardware floppy controllers. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22970693

Greaseweazle - Tools and USB interface for accessing a floppy drive at the raw flux level. https://github.com/keirf/Greaseweazle https://www.retrocomputers.online/greaseweazle-flux-level-fl...

FC5025 USB 5.25" Floppy Controller http://www.deviceside.com/fc5025.html

Earlier today there was discussion of the FluxEngine[1], due to it's newly added Mac 800k disk read/support (OK, it had read for a while, but now it can both read and write).

What I love about the FluxEngine is that it is so simple - no custom PCBs, just a single PSOC development board with a single set of soldered header pins.

Not saying that the other alternatives are bad - it's great to have competition. For several years it seemed that KryoFlux would be the sole dominant USB floppy controller, nice to see there's a range of options available.

Edit: seems as though FluxEngine may gain support for using GreaseWeazle hardware[2] at some point, which would be neat!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25656283

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25675381

I've had a KryoFlux for a number of years, but I feel like I have been seeing a lot of people who aren't fans of their recently... do you know why people don't like them?

https://www.kryoflux.com/download/LICENCE.txt

>people who aren't fans

tldr: just fuck off already, you sold me the gizmo, you have no rights to anything I do with it

I don’t see anything bad in the license? Am I missing something?

They claim rights to things you can and cannot do post sale. This is a "good" version. Previously they also claimed copyrights over anything you ripped with their tools.

Jason Scott (textfiles on HN) explained[1] the main reasons that make several people (including myself) uncomfortable with KyroFlux.

(sidenote: the author of FluxEngine[2] replied to that thread, which is where I first heard about it)

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/comments/buyj9f/ti...

[2] http://cowlark.com/fluxengine/

Can anyone recommend purchaseable hardware that I could use to backup my Amiga 3.5" floppies to a PC?

See my other comment I show how to use a teac fd 505 with greaseweazle to backup Amiga disks on pc.

I recently demonstrated a 3.5 and 5.25 in solution based on greaseweasle if you are interested to see how it looks like: https://youtu.be/7C9adUKbLj8

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