Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Your Name Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: How about your 5.25" disks? Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2025 11:12:33 +1200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 25 Message-ID: <102ib90$3o2id$1@dont-email.me> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2025 01:12:34 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="6b6390e7c6c91120bdf1d3371edc7c3f"; logging-data="3934797"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18nm1sWhVlAZYTMef0dYhNLXfYiIcAdY9A=" User-Agent: Unison/2.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:5GZufAvsbTY4waK3SpemiN406xU= Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.apple2:49205 On 2025-06-13 16:04:04 +0000, Scott Alfter said: > In article <102fmke$2vief$1@dont-email.me>, > Your Name 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. :-)