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Floppy disk imaging - what program to use?

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Reply 20 of 23, by Martin8bity

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Robin4 wrote on 2021-08-30, 19:26:

I think iam going to use software first. Then i dont have to spend so much of money for nothing.
But maybe it is a last resort, if iam out of other options.

Sure, software may be the easiest. There is no need to spend a lot of money. Greaseweazle is cheap and you can even build it yourself with $10 BluePill STM32 board https://github.com/keirf/Greaseweazle/wiki/Blue-Pill-Direct.

Reply 21 of 23, by Robin4

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Martin8bity wrote on 2021-08-30, 20:53:
Robin4 wrote on 2021-08-30, 19:26:

I think iam going to use software first. Then i dont have to spend so much of money for nothing.
But maybe it is a last resort, if iam out of other options.

Sure, software may be the easiest. There is no need to spend a lot of money. Greaseweazle is cheap and you can even build it yourself with $10 BluePill STM32 board https://github.com/keirf/Greaseweazle/wiki/Blue-Pill-Direct.

Is that board for doing low-level on the floppy drive?

~ At least it can do black and white~

Reply 22 of 23, by Martin8bity

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Robin4 wrote on 2021-08-30, 23:48:
Martin8bity wrote on 2021-08-30, 20:53:

Is that board for doing low-level on the floppy drive?

It does all read/write on low-level, mostly it supports SPC flux level file format and conversions have to be done by other utilities.