Archival Floppy Disk Preservation and Use
I've been getting into some weird computers and devices recently and have had to forge my own path on reading and writing weird floppy disk formats. Today I want to go over how it is I do that and how you can use these techniques for nearly any kind of disk to make backups and write complicated formats.
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Kryoflux: https://kryoflux.com/
Greaseweazle: https://github.com/keirf/greaseweazle
HxC Floppy: https://hxc2001.com/download/floppy_d...
My own floppy scripts: https://github.com/AkBKukU/gw-tools
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:56 Disk Formats are Variable
2:22 Different Drive Types
3:53 Reading Disks From Modern Computers
6:26 Seeing Floppy Disk Data
7:27 Disk Encoding
9:09 Format Structure and Converting
12:15 Understanding Non-Standard Disks
15:02 More Examples of Determining Disk Formats
20:21 Completely Custom Disk Types
22:09 Inconsistent Disk Formats ( Copy Protection )
23:30 Summary
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