Read or Write Amiga disks on your PC For 40$ or less
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ส.ค. 2024
- E252: Have you ever wished that you could just use a pc floppy drive to read your amiga disks on your Windows pc? well wish no more! introducing "THE DRAWBRIDGE" a creation by Rob Smith!. it uses a small Arduino board to intercept those pesky PC floppy signals and transform them into Amiga goodness. (theres more to it than that) but in a nutshell thats it! Watch this video and use the links below to get yours !!
The Drawbridge:
amiga.robsmithd...
the floppy itself
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model ASM P/N 27l4226
FRU P/N 05k9283
has a N533 on the bottom
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Hey man, thanks for showcasing another amazing idea!! I DO have a huge storage tub of amiga disks, and this is the ticket, along with your pimiga. You rock dude.
Your Videos brighten my Day pal...
I've been on the waiting list for one of these for months and months
I was also
Yep, like a kid waiting for Christmas! And now it's Dec 26th and I am a few months away from it yet... Patience my good man!
Its perfect for those that buy an 500, and have no software for it. I remember splitting adf files on pc, mounting pc disk in Amiga, copy to ram-disk, reassemble file, write using adf2disk. That took a loooong time, getting 50 games written on 880k disks.
Hi there. I did this trick years ago with a Arduino UNO, FTDI USB to TTL Breakout Board -(5v), standard PC floppy drive (internal) a breadboard,
some jumper wire and a 1k resistor. You wont to use jumper wire not the floppy IDE cable that has a twist (trust me on that). Than you need the
Rob Smith software and wiring diagram. This is how i got my AMIGA stuff onto the PC. It was awesome and easy compared to the alternative with
a null modem cable a PC, AMIGA and proprietary software... Just won't to let you know if you can't buy the wire with Rob's Smith PCB attached for
some reason. Yes it is a fiddly process, buying the ready to go solution is more comfortable :). Cheers!
Received the email I could purchase about two months ago. I'd forgotten all about it and had to research actually what is was!
I was on the list for over a year so be patient. Up and going!!! Fantastic lil device! And yeah, the shipping cost was insane!
I do like that it works in winuae… nice.
And pimiga
Tnx Mr.Chris . Like !
Have one of these as well. Love it!
Nice! Looks like I'm off to shop! BTW I use a supercard to accomplish the same task, however this is a nice elegant solution overall!
Cool way to make ADF`s. I think I converted all my Disks to ADF`s and copied them to CD many years ago.
I have a towered Amiga 1200 with removable disk drive bays which used to swap between Pc Emulation. 👍
"THE DRAWBRIDGE" is a much simpler way to do it.
There is another way of transfer adf files by using the parallel port cable of the Amiga and Pc, and the download the program which allow the process of conversion.
Had my name down for one since I saw it on RMC. Looks like a pretty neat alternative to the Greaseweazel
Cleaner and easier too!
I also signed up but haven’t heard back. How long is the wait time?
Chris you never stop teaching me something new 👍🏻 Luckily I’m in the U.K so it’s time to look to invest in one of these do-hickies! 😉🤗 I’m just wondering if this could also be used on an Amiga, with a RapidRoad or Spider USB setup on the Amiga as an external drive as well? Another use 👍🏻
I don’t think so bit it works w pimiga
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration just put myself on the waiting list. Got to get a USB Floppy drive. Will test when I get it all setup to see what happens Ona Spider II/RapidRoad Amiga setups I have 👍🏻
this is massive, hopefully i can purchase a unit from you in the near future :)
Oh i dont sell them i had it made. Msg me i can give the site. They are in the uk. I dont know if its ok to post a link to it here
got mines today, exact same as yours, opened it to check insides were same as well but be careful folks, because when i did open it was filthy inside, even though in same packaging and listed as new.
Possibly they have been sitting in a warehouse for 10 years until they became fashionable again thanks to Rob Smith's genius! We did see in Chris's video that his drive had a blue bag but it was not in the blue bag... Someone has been in at them.
looks like a great product.
I have one, great device, just watch out if you have older pc with USB 2 it wont work properly you need the extra power that USB3 pushes out
"Make Amiga Great Again." Whooo I want the same ! Where to find one for my country, France ?
Hi Chris, as always a great video. Love your style! ;-)
Was that little screenythingy device left under your Win10-Monitor showing these nice pixel vids?
This is so nerdy I badly need it for my retro corner mancave whatever place ... Do you have a link?
Its called a divoom tivoo pixel art speaker. I have a video coming up on it
Awesome video
Thats a great tool!
CatWeazle for great for me but that's an interesting product....Mark.
That Was Cool
So the way I've been doing this is loading an ADF into my Gotek and doing X-Copy to write it to a physical diskette. Is this method better?
whatever way works for you works.
This is very cool… but Amiga explorer can use the Amiga disk drive in the Amiga for free, if you have a serial nul modem cable, or networked Amiga…
Just presenting options
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration me too!
Sure can but its slooooooow
How do you know which drives are compatible? Can't locate a list. Would be a nice DIY project.
amiga.robsmithdev.co.uk
This is awesome. But I am on the waiting list for it:
SUCCESS!. 1 record found.
Based on statistics, on average, only 57% of people on the waiting list actually use their place. So:
Joined Waiting List: Wed 7th Jun 2023
Position: 3685
Status: Waiting
Current Batch of Boards:
Remaining: 30
Number of People Before You: 1001
Chance of Being in This Batch: 0%
Next Batch of Boards:
Expected: Not ordered yet, come back soon...
Does it work with Disk Protecion ? Can I make backup my old collection ?
Yes using scp
is there any other small (tiny) pcb circuit board device which enables the floppy drive to read Amiga discs? thanks........... i mean just like the Arduino drawbridge?? but a similar device thanks?????
Gotek is a usb floppy emulator and very popular. Turn key less than 60$
I recognize the 'boing' from X-copy --- did any other program use it ?
I was considering getting one of those --- but ended up getting a V4 Greaseweazle.
I would like to know what it would take to get it to work on linux , I quit using windows after xp
If you use wine it might work for winn UAE
The code already cross-compiles. There’s a bug in the currently build but next one will be ok. I believe someone is working on a Linux GUI too
This is a pretty cool device. I had an invite to buy one until I saw the £50 shipping to USA and was like Uh No. I have ordered plenty of retro stuff from the UK and have never been charged more then £10-15 shipping. Something wrong there and no it isn't the USPS. Thankfully I have a KryoFlux which will do basically the same thing only more and at a higher level. But this was cool and I already had several of these exact USB floppy drives so it would have been cool but yeah if they can get the shipping down to £10 or less I am in.
Shipping is about £10 to USA. It’s the import taxes that put the price up
@@RobSmithDev Ugh, That stinks. Is that new because I never had to pay that before coming to the USA?
If I remember it is a custom version of winuae and not officially supported by Toni, not sure if he is adding it to the official release but its not in the latest beta.
It is a special one linked on robs amiga page
I’m working with Toni. After I add HD support he will merge it into the official build
@@RobSmithDev Thats good to know
Nice tool Chris. Since you also played with Amithlon. could you try it on a amithlon if it also works there. Doy you also have a link for the real big disks 5.25 i think it was. when i was young i did not have the money for small slimline so i used an external disk with big real floppyś because they where cheaper. i still have lots of these and also a c64 use them . do you have an idea is there is also usb to big floppies?
I will have to test it w amithlon, As far as i know there are no 5.25 usb floppies. Lol
this Drawbridge can it read write Dragon 32 / 64 discs too ? thanks..........
Dont know
Signed up age's ago but still waiting to be told i can buy one 🤔
Hey Chris, what’s that clock/pixel display thingy on the left under the monitor?
Divoom tivoo. I have a video on it coming soon
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration I just picked up one. Looks cool! PS: What would you recommend as a good Amiga starter computer? Which model? How much should I pay for it on Ebay? What should I check? Never had one as a kid, and I want one so bad!!!
50 pounds? You know way back long ago, men died of scurvy, ships sank, to bring tea, sugar, and spices, to the colonies. Took weeks. Sometimes months. :)
This is 2021 lol
Would love to see software support for Raspberry Pi.
Latest build of Amiberry supports it
Hello. Do you test it on amithlon?😉
Cool. I’m having trouble locating a UK supplier for a compatible slimline USB floppy drive. Any suggestions for a suitable model?
i wrote the part numbers i used and a general link down in the extended desc.
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration quality. Thanks.
Does it support high density and Amiga floppies? I had a high density Amiga drive.
The newer firmware
Does
i had one of these - it never worked !! any 1 have any ideas? maybe should i use superglue to keep it in place? thanks.........
I broke a USB floppy disk drive by messing about with it in Linux. Don't try to cat stuff to /dev/fd0
Chris, so which number on the bottom of the drive is the critical one please, p/n, s/n or some other numbers?
I show it and read it out loud on the video
Will this be compatible with the pimiga
Yup
That’s great cheers for the reply
Hi Chris, Will this work with the Pimega MF Edition?
If you make a new compile of amiberry yes. But native support in pimiga 2.0x64. Which is just about sorted
If anyone can find a link to the actual drive? Loads on ebay that look like same drive but dont show the model number that chris has ?
I read the part number and even flipped it over and showed the camera
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration its ok chris you did great, i did eventually find one (sellers last one), its just that the ebay listings are thin on the ground that actually show the model number or a box, there are many that look like the same drive tho but dont show any model numbers. Thanks for this tho, amazing
@@martindianeclark7841 Can you or Chris share the Ebay link to purchase one?
@@ClassicGamerB i cant as it was the last one, its not listed anymore, but as i said there is lots that look the same but no ad pics of the model number or the box
There’s a discussion about where to get drives on the discord at discord.gg/HctVgSFEXu
does it support data recovery on partially ruined disks?
you can make adfs or scps out of them
this drive - can it act as a normal pc 1.44meg drive too? read write boot etc from normal 1.44 and 720k discs? thanx..... i would like to buy one (is it from Rob Smith computing)????
Once you swap out that board it is strictly for adf use. Greaseweasle is a cheaper option w more features
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Thanks for the info: I was contemplating building one of these but I think I will get a Greaseweasle. I have a couple hundred vintage floppies and I want to try to pull the contents of a dozen or so before I sell my Amiga 1000.
Do you know where I can buy brand new DSDD 720k floppy disks for the Amiga these days at a reasonable price? I would like to do this but need working disks and I've cleaned and prepped hundreds of floppies in the past and don't want to go back to doing that if I can help it.
easy - floppydisk.com
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Not US-based
Postage would be extortionate to UK
Heck if you’re in the UK you can probably yell at your window if anyone has a Amiga disk and they will throw them at you like flowers
I'm kinda a noob, so forgive me for not researching this. But if you have a Gotek, and a spare Amiga drive, can't you copy a disk to an ADF(or overwrite an existing ADF) on your Amiga? Or isn't that possible.
There are programs to read and write adf on amigas but what if you had no gotek?
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Oh, do you need a special program to write to the Gotek? Can't you use your regular diskcopy or xcopy or whatever Amiga program?
The thing is, if a Gotek can perform ADF creation from the Amiga side, you can get a Gotek for less than $40 bucks, and it might be a better investment if you intend to use a real Amiga and floppy drive instead of emulated. That's kinda what I need to know as I have a Gotek (and as yet uninstalled pistorm), rather than having to buy this. The added conundrum, is that I have a 5 1/4 drive and floppies also (a lot of which I know are going to be dead). Thanks for answering.
Do you know if this would work on Linux? I don't have any Windows based machines.
maybe through wine?
Where can you buy this?
i take it you did not see all the links in the extended description?>
can this pcb read write other discs too ?? like atari st dragon 32 or other ones like apple mac 400 k or 800 k ?? what about Acorn Archimedes 640 k or 800 k 1.6 mb? thanks....................
dont know, ask rob smith. i have this for Amiga disks. you may have better luck with the Greaseweasle as its more kryoflux stable with multiple formats
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration okay thanks my friend Also do you know about risc os a game demo program called lander ?? Thanks & bless you lots