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floppyem.sys - config.sys Floppy Emulator device driver (Announce)

posted by Arjay, 09.05.2010, 00:39

> I'm still not sure, what you're looking for
Thank you for your response. To be clear I am NOT actively looking for anything myself but was rather thinking out loud regarding the clear needs of others; in that some people need ways of emulating floppy drives under native DOS. I have thus suggested the creation of a config.sys driver to do this like a RAMDISK driver only designed to load (and yes possibly save) from image files which could be stored on any media readable as another DOS drive.

I could probably write one myself but for 2 reasons: 1) I believe there are far more qualified people on this forum with more experience and existing code. 2) Time - I'm busy with other projects not only my own but I am also working to help release other peoples DOS projects (not yet announced).


Hence I have shared my thinking "out in the open" in the hope that someone says, ah yes I could easily take this existing code and do that. To be clear I am not looking or thinking of anyone in particular but am hoping that someone with better skills than I have with disk images will pickup this need.


> did you try Veit Kannegieser's
> e0x?

No. Sadly nothing like this there. But really interesting link - thank you!

Complete thread:

• FYI: DEATH (again, after cca 30 years) - DOS386, 07.05.2010, 05:07 (Announce)
  • HxC SD card floppy emulator / Virtual Floppy Drive / Flopper - Arjay, 07.05.2010, 17:27
    • DEATH / HxC SD card floppy emulator / Virtual Floppy Drive - DOS386, 08.05.2010, 07:02
      • DEATH / HxC SD card floppy emulator / Virtual Floppy Drive - Arjay, 08.05.2010, 13:18
        • Other hardware floppy emulators - using USB sticks on ebay - Arjay, 08.05.2010, 16:43
        • DEATH / HxC SD card floppy emulator / Virtual Floppy Drive - DOS386, 13.05.2010, 03:51
  • FYI: DEATH (again, after cca 30 years) - Rugxulo, 08.05.2010, 13:35
    • FYI: DEATH (again, after cca 30 years) - Arjay, 08.05.2010, 13:55
  • floppyem.sys - config.sys Floppy Emulator device driver - Arjay, 08.05.2010, 18:03
    • floppyem.sys - config.sys Floppy Emulator device driver - rr, 08.05.2010, 21:12
      • floppyem.sys - config.sys Floppy Emulator device driver - Arjay, 09.05.2010, 00:39
  • FDD emulator - Vehudis, 09.05.2010, 08:46
    • FDD emulators - fakedisk (read-only) + DF-IFS (read/write) - Arjay, 09.05.2010, 12:27
  • FYI: DEATH (again, after cca 30 years) - roytam, 09.05.2010, 09:48