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Re: How about your 5.25" disks?

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On 2025-06-13 16:04:04 +0000, Scott Alfter said:
> In article <102fmke$2vief$1@dont-email.me>,
> Your Name  <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
>> On 2025-06-12 21:25:23 +0000, phigan said:
>>> Just FYI, I believe you can modify some USB floppy drives to read Amiga
>>> disks, then image them or load them in UAE or something.
>> 
>> There are a couple of hardware cards, like Catweasel, you can buy that
>> allow you to use a standard USB floppy drive to read Amiga disks, but
>> those cards are too expensive for what would be basically just a
>> one-off use to read the disks.
> 
> There's also the FluxEngine, which is an easy mod of a cheap dev board:
> 
> https://cowlark.com/fluxengine/
> 
> I built one to archive my Apple II floppies, but I can't seem to find the
> floppies now.  I'm wondering if they got left behind in a move. :-(

Interesting, but a lot or work and still costs money, probably above my 
"pay grade", to fid there's nothing on the disks worth keeping.  :-)

The ideal (impossible as it is) would be to use an existing ordinary 
USB floppy drive with a piece of free Mac software.  :-)

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      Re: How about your 5.25" disks? phigan <phigan@bbs.penisys.online> - 2025-06-12 21:25 +0000
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