• acosmichippo@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    when we say “emulates floppy disks” are we just talking about .img files?

    if so, that’s not nearly as impractical as the meme makes it sound. .img files are quite common for distributing software.

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      3 months ago

      I took that to mean a peripheral that basically pretends to be a floppy disk drive to whatever OS (if any) they’re running, maybe reading the data off flash memory or whatever

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      3 months ago

      Probably a floppy disk hardware emulator, something that essentially plugs to the original system’s floppy disk interface, has a drive for modern removable media (USB/SD card/whatever), and buttons/displays to support disk image swapping and unmount/eject.

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        3 months ago

        Those emulators could well have more processing power than the device they’re connected to. Very cool tech.