10-02-2023, 12:08 PM
Hello All.
A new product is on it's way.
It's called the 'MultiFloppy'
MultiFloppy is a neatly packaged 3.5" Disk drive for your Microbee (and other systems) that also includes
a 'Gotek / FlashFloppy' Floppy drive emulator built in.
With the Multifloppy, via the FlashFloppy menu, you can select which drive is in which position (A: to D: )
so that you can Boot from either the Floppy disk drive, or an image on the USB stick.
It also includes a 9.5volt power supply output to run your Microbee from.
As part of the design, the power supply output only gets enabled after the FlashFloppy software has read
the USB Stick and has an image ready to boot - this avoids the Microbee timing out while waiting for a
disk image to be ready.
More details to come & it is nearly ready for production. Some minor tweaks are needed to both the PCB
design & the FlashFloppy software. Stay tuned for availability.
A new product is on it's way.
It's called the 'MultiFloppy'
MultiFloppy is a neatly packaged 3.5" Disk drive for your Microbee (and other systems) that also includes
a 'Gotek / FlashFloppy' Floppy drive emulator built in.
With the Multifloppy, via the FlashFloppy menu, you can select which drive is in which position (A: to D: )
so that you can Boot from either the Floppy disk drive, or an image on the USB stick.
It also includes a 9.5volt power supply output to run your Microbee from.
As part of the design, the power supply output only gets enabled after the FlashFloppy software has read
the USB Stick and has an image ready to boot - this avoids the Microbee timing out while waiting for a
disk image to be ready.
More details to come & it is nearly ready for production. Some minor tweaks are needed to both the PCB
design & the FlashFloppy software. Stay tuned for availability.