News Raspberry Pi Emulates Amiga 1200, Uses Real Floppy Disks

[Admin]

Rob Fisher is using a Raspberry Pi to power his Amiga 1200 emulation project complete with a working floppy drive.

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[RobFisher11]

I thought the thumbnail in my Google Now feed looked familiar. Thanks for the write-up, Ash!

 

[Hooda Thunkett]

I'm impressed. Amiga floppies were notorious for being incompatible on non-Amiga drives due to being CLV and so having more sectors per track as you moved out from the center, as opposed to CAV and having a standard number of sectors for all tracks like PCs.

 

[TerryLaze]

I'm impressed. Amiga floppies were notorious for being incompatible on non-Amiga drives due to being CLV and so having more sectors per track as you moved out from the center, as opposed to CAV and having a standard number of sectors for all tracks like PCs.

As the article notes, and links to, this uses Greaseweazle which has been around for a pretty long time, and it also only works with images which means that the Pi reads the whole floppy into ram, or disk, and works on that, you can basically save yourself the money and just use adf files.

 

[RetroPassionUK]

Thank you linking to us 🙂

 

[RobFisher11]

As the article notes, and links to, this uses Greaseweazle which has been around for a pretty long time, and it also only works with images which means that the Pi reads the whole floppy into ram, or disk, and works on that, you can basically save yourself the money and just use adf files.

It can read the whole floppy into ram, but it doesn't have to. With Amiberry, it works in a mode where it reads the same way an Amiga would. You can even hear the drive ticking when there is no disk in, and it will automatically detect any disk you insert, just like the Amiga did.