Greaseweazle V4 USB Floppy Adapter - Flux Reader Writer

This fantastic device designed and built by Keir Fraser at zeroflux and now in it's 4th generation, has many brilliant features. However, for the Commodore Amiga community, it finally provides users with the ability to read and write Amiga floppy disks using an inexpensive drive, via Windows and Linux. This is especially useful, when running Amiga emulation software on these platforms.

Traditionally Flux level devices such as this, cost hundreds of pounds. Thanks to Keir's design, it is now an affordable solution for any Amiga user wishing to back up and protect original disks and write disk images, such as ADF; back to floppies.

Greaseweazle

The Greaseweazle allows flexible control via USB over a standard floppy drive.

This is achieved by extracting the raw flux transitions from a drive.

Any disk format can be captured and analysed; including :

• PC
• Amiga
• Amstrad
• PDP-11

Various musical instruments & industrial equipment and much more...

The Greaseweazle also supports writing to floppy disks, from a wide range of image file formats which include those commonly used for online preservation (ADF, IPF, DSK, IMG, HFE, ...).

Greaseweazle V4 is the latest version, updated by Keir for mass production and includes the following features:

• Reads and writes 3", 3.5", 5.25", 8" disks (with suitable drive and cable)
• Buffered outputs, for communicating with older 5.25" and 8" disk drives
• Integrated power connector for directly powering most 3.5" disk drives
• Write-enable jumper can be removed for safer preservation of precious vintage disks
• Supports flippy-modded 5.25" drives
• Supports Disk-Change detection as used by Rob Smith's integration into the WinUAE Amiga emulator
• 3 user-definable outputs (eg. 8" interface REDWC signal)
• 100% factory tested, and tested again by Keir before shipping!

More information and documentation can be found on Keir's wiki: https://github.com/keirf/Greaseweazle/wiki/V4-Setu...

This product includes the Greaseweazle V4 device only.

You will additionally require:

• A disk drive (for example a PC 3.5" or 5.25" drive)
• A floppy ribbon cable (typically you want a standard PC cable with 'twist' on pins 10-16, to communicate with a PC floppy drive)
• Floppy drive power cable, or power supply

Recommended host OS: Windows 8, Windows 10, Ubuntu Linux.

Windows 7 and most versions of macOS and Linux should also work (however, they have not at this time been fully tested).

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