[Coco] Raspberry Pi as Virtual Floppy Diskâ€

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for copy protected even floppy emulators will fail.

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On 2013-06-16, at 12:32 AM, David Ladd <drencor at gamepixel.net> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 7:43 PM, <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote:
> 
>> You should be able to run a DriveEire Server on a RaspberryPi.
>> Isn't that a bit better than just a Virtual Floppy Disk?
> 
> Well drivewire server is good for the 256 byte sectored disk images, but
> when it comes to copy protected floppy disks a way of true full floppy
> emulation is needed in this case.  I know that a device that can fully
> emulate the MFM so that copy protection can be backed up is best for this
> type of project.
> 
> Drivewire server is great for a lot of things except for copy protected
> floppy disk images.
> 
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