keirf/flashfloppy
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Floppy drive emulator for Gotek hardware
16 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 2 stories, 14 comments · first 2019-11-15 · latest 2026-08-11
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For old equipment, there are very good alternative methods =3 https://github.com/keirf/flashfloppy
comment by Joel_Mckay · 2026-08-11 · in Recycle – Floppydisks -
…Then use clean disk images on USB floppy emulators for old equipment: https://github.com/keirf/flashfloppy It is rare to need these tools, but for some folks it is important. =3
comment by Joel_Mckay · 2026-05-30 · in What It Takes to Preserve Floppy Disks -
…(and probably doesn't fit cleanly). https://archive.is/gFVNm (medium post, shows the adapter) https://github.com/keirf/FlashFloppy/issues/549 (somebody had issue with high 5V rail causing Gotek to not work)
comment by epakai · 2025-11-17 · in PicoIDE – An open IDE/ATAPI drive emulator -
…or whatever, but just in case, you can use some of the Gotek USB flash drive floppy disk emulators: https://github.com/keirf/FlashFloppy/wiki/Host-Platforms#rol... And this may or may not be out of date, but may still be useful:…
comment by Nexxxeh · 2025-03-29 · in A note on the USB-to-PS/2 mouse adapter that came with Microsoft mouse devices -
The hardware is quite generic. What's interesting is the firmware everyone uses, FlashFloppy[0]. 0. https://github.com/keirf/flashfloppy/wiki
comment by snvzz · 2024-11-14 · in The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development -
…reimplementation [1] of the Gotek hardware that's compatible with the FlashFloppy Firmware. 0: https://github.com/keirf/flashfloppy 1: https://github.com/SukkoPera/OpenFlops
comment by tecleandor · 2024-02-29 · in The floppy disk music scene -
The other side of this coin is emulating a floppy drive in software: https://github.com/keirf/flashfloppy
comment by EvanAnderson · 2023-12-19 · in Bit banging a 3.5" floppy drive -
…old equipment with more reliable technology. Highly recommend Keir Fraser's Flash Floppy project: https://github.com/keirf/flashfloppy =)
comment by Joel_Mckay · 2023-03-07 · in The floppy disk just won’t die -
…hardware. Since I'm nitpicking, it's not an IDE interface, as there's no IDE floppy drives :) [1] https://github.com/keirf/flashfloppy
comment by gattilorenz · 2022-09-13 · in The last person standing in the floppy disk business -
FlashFloppy. The hardware is a commodity. Software (firmware) is what matters. https://github.com/keirf/FlashFloppy
comment by snvzz · 2022-08-10 · in Area 5150: 8088 MPH gets a successor -
…handy anyway to be able to use a USB stick as a virtual floppy, and the GoTek drives are cheap. https://github.com/keirf/FlashFloppy
comment by tyingq · 2021-02-25 · in CP/Mish is an open source sort-of-CP/M distribution for Z80 -
…has been the cheap Gotek floppy emulators that read from a USB stick running this free firmware: https://github.com/keirf/FlashFloppy It has a great number of hardware mods that give it a display and a rotary encoder for better disk…
comment by zdw · 2020-08-10 · in Boeing 747s receive software updates over floppy disks -
…these I believe that makes them work with more computers: http://www.gotekemulator.com Found it: https://github.com/keirf/FlashFloppy/wiki
comment by NegativeLatency · 2020-04-24 · in FC5025 USB 5.25” Floppy Controller -
There are now quite a few floppy emulators of all kinds of flavors. One: https://github.com/keirf/FlashFloppy
comment by jacobush · 2019-11-15 · in What is the “two-drive trick” that can read Amiga disks on a PC?