Tech Tangents | Archival Floppy Disk Preservation and Use @TechTangents | Uploaded February 2024 | Updated October 2024, 6 hours ago.
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.

Read the complementary write-up here: wiki.techtangents.net/wiki/Floppy_Disk_Imaging

Projects Mentioned:
Kryoflux: kryoflux.com
Greaseweazle: github.com/keirf/greaseweazle
HxC Floppy: hxc2001.com/download/floppy_drive_emulator

My own floppy scripts: 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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