But I would prefer to have an original, physical floppy drive in my Amiga 500. Having a Gotek Floppy Emulator that stores a multitude of Floppy – ADF (Amiga Disk File) images – is certainly a help both storage and failing floppies and drives. Many legacy devices like music keyboards, knitting machines, embriodery machines, cnc machines, etc uses 3.5″ floppies that are hard to come by as well as failing floppy drives. The Gotek basically stores images of floppy disks on a USB drive. When I got my new old Amiga 500, I was fortunate enough to also acquire a Gotek Floppy Emulator. ![]() I originally wrote and posted this article on Amiga Retro Computing. In this post I will be installing a Gotek Floppy Emulator into an external 3.5″ floppy drive case to solve this problem. Unfortunately these drives and the floppy disks they store their information on are not aging well. ![]() ![]() The Amiga 500 and Amiga 600 relies heavily on their builtin 3.5 inch 880 KB floppy drives.
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