Origins of the 3.5in Floppy Disk [video]

Re:Origins of the 3.5in Floppy Disk [video] by kiritanpo on Monday October 23, 2023 @09:35AM (#37985390)

I'm currently in the process of dumping all my old Amiga floppies too. If your basement was relatively not too humid or hot, the disks should all still be readable.

There are two popular USB floppy drive controllers for archiving Amiga disks: KryoFlux and Greaseweazle. You need a standard disk reader to use along (not a USB one).

The KryoFlux is a bit more expensive but can create complete archival level images (called KryoFlux stream). Otherwise both devices will produce floppy images (ADF) that can be used in any Amiga emulator or written back to floppy to use on a real Amiga.

Here's an overview of the available tools, some of them are pretty old, you can't go wrong with the two I listed above: https://www.amigaforever.com/kb/13-118

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Re:Origins of the 3.5in Floppy Disk [video] by AkBKukU on Monday October 23, 2023 @11:13AM (#37986822)

The Greaseweazle can directly read/write KyroFlux stream files as well. The KryoFlux files are my preferred "archival grade" backup format because they also store multiple reads of the disk tracks in each file to get a consensus on a "good" read.

You can easily convert to other formats with the HxC Floppy Software.

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