Raspberry PI as Amiga Floppy Drive

[mram]

Hi there,
after several years of hard work my Amiga floppy drive stopped working leaving me in trouble... buy a new drive (but several disks are in bad condition too), buy a floppy emulator (nice but expensive for retro fun) ... or try to use my Raspberry PI other than as xbmc player?
I made Amiga RPI Drive, which is a bare metal software to FULLY emulate the Amiga internal floppy drives.
I know there are other (more expensive) solutions, but this is just another to use RPI and to understand what it is capable.
So if you have an old Amiga and you would like to use again, sometime just for fun, perhaps you are interested to this little project.

As you see the interface is very simple and the installation it's just a matter of copy&paste fiels on the SD.





How it works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG8lcDisK7o
You can find all the instructions needed and the software here

http://amigadrive.blogspot.com

Hope you enjoy Amiga again as I did

[mikerr]

Fantastic !

I'm very tempted to make this myself as you've kindly shared the schematic,
except that my Amigas have HDDs in them.

[mram]

Fantastic !

I'm very tempted to make this myself as you've kindly shared the schematic,
except that my Amigas have HDDs in them.

HDD is mu much better! I don't have, could you manage (and eventually how) with the HDD the old games too? While the Amiga RPI Drive is the complete floppy drive emulator, the speed is exactly the same (perhaps a little bit faster) and I was wondering if there is a (cheap) solution for games which don't have an HDD installation option. I mean a solution with my real Amiga 500, not some miming/emulator (WinUAE rocks!)

[mikerr]

Many games had programs to transfer to hdd at the time (some were written by the scene),
I still fire it up for SuperStardust and Dune2 off HDD - both were 5 or 6 floppy disks each.

..which reminds me - that's an old mechanical 340meg IDE HDD (yes meg not gig, bees knees at the time) - I could change it to run off a 4 GB CF card now.

I guess nowadays every game is freely available as an adf

[a1exh]

I'm sure this can become a generic floppy disk emulator in the future. A professional PCB is being produced which should fit any old 3.5" floppy disk system.

[bugsy_malone 666]

I'd say theres not really such thing as 'generic'

You can use certain PC drives with Amigas but even they need rewiring, which is what I tried doing before I built one of these little things using the guys instructions, its a brilliant bit of kit for the cost!