2 blog posts tagged floppy disks

Screenshot of Disk Image Manager showing a FAT at track 2 sector 5

Extracting files from Tatung Einstein disk images

Kevin Edwards got hold of some 3" disks containing source code to various old commercial games and once they were imaged with a high quality process (a Kryoflux) it was time to write some tooling to get the files out of the corresponding DSK file.

A 3-inch, 3.5-inch, and 5.25-inch floppy imaging machine in black

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A quick primer on floppy disks

I've always been fascinated by floppy disks from the crazy stories of Steve Wozniak designing the Disk II controller using a handful of logic chips and carefully-timed software to the amazing tricks to create - and break - copy protection recently popularised by 4am.