It bugs me a little that this changes the look of your vintage PC which is part of the whole joy of retro collecting for some. Once the disks are on there, plug-in the USB device and away you go however is it right to do so? Lets skip over the Ethics of downloading dos games from the net and all that gubbins as that’s not a topic i want to get into and besides if it’s truly abandon ware then its fair game. It is easy and if you’re struggling and reading this then just watch Phil’s Computer Labs video of it here: Images of floppies you’ve made or found?Ĭan be written to virtual floppies contained on a USB pen, up to 999 images can be made if your USB device can hold that much. The computer just sees it as a 1.44mb floppy drive. Gotek makes a floppy drive emulator and I think most of china makes knockoff ones now, not that I’m complaining this one only cost me £13 bargain! It directly emulates any floppy drive you can think of and with different firmware even does odd drive like the Amiga.
However read write errors continued to plague my experience and no it’s not the drive, I tried different drives and spent hour formatting and writing disks for a good 1/4 of them to fail once in use. So the 1.44mb drive went in and it is entirely period correct for the computer. This shipped with a 360k floppy drive which I changed as i don’t have many dos formatted single density kicking around and no other computers to write them on.
Here we have My Olivetti M240 640k computer, However not matter how nostalgic i feel about them we have to acknowledge their flaws, thy are all getting old and weather its the disks themselves or the drives that read them but errors are becoming more frequent. I am not even kidding, I’ve got Acorn floppies, Atari ST floppies, Amiga floppies and Dos floppies. Lets get something straight before we begin, I love floppy disks! Great little media storage solution and like many other retro computer collectors I have hundreds.
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