Tag: Floppy Drive
Tynemouth Software Repairs Vintage Excelerator Plus Disk Drive
Tynemouth Software recently detailed an intriguing repair of an Excelerator Plus disk drive by Oceanic, known primarily under the model FSD-2 Excelerator+Plus but occasionally...
Amiga 1200 Build: Installing Drives and Modifying Cables
In this video, Ms Mad Lemon begins the physical build of her Amiga 1200. She installs various drives, including a CD writer, a GoTek...
ALPS Floppy Drive Conversion for Amiga 500
In this episode of The 8-Bit Manshed, the host presents a floppy drive conversion project. The focus of the episode is on an Alps...
Adapting a Mitsumi D359M3 PC Floppy Drive to AMIGA
Today on The 8-Bit Manshed, Ollie is working with a Mitsumi D359M3 PC floppy drive, a model that can be easily converted for use...
Commodore SX-64 Restoration Pt 2
In this video from RavenWolf Retro Tech, the creator works on the power supply, CRT, floppy drive, and other components of the SX-64. The...
Repair & Refurb Two Broken External Amiga Floppy Drives
In this episode of Retronaut, the host tackles the repair of two broken Amiga external 3.5" floppy drives. These drives were part of an...
Herr Doktor Diskettenlaufwerk aka Amiga-HDDLW
Late-model Amiga computers utilize specialized floppy drives, such as the Chinon FZ-357A, to facilitate the reading and writing of high-density floppy disks, commonly referred...
C64 1541 Speed Test Updated
For those of you who like to work on your own equipment. Developer Piergiorgio Zambrini aka Zibri has updated his 1541 Speed Test software...