SOLID STATE FLOPPY For STANDARD Floppy Drives

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SOLID STATE FLOPPY For STANDARD Floppy Drives

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Күн бұрын

I take a look at the FlashPath, a Solid State Floppy Disk Adaptor that works in a standard 1.44mb floppy drive.
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@RetroGameCouch 2 жыл бұрын

You can find the drivers that I used, and a few extra, here: retrogamecouch.com/449/solid-state-floppy-that-works-in-a-standard-floppy-drive/ Hope you enjoy the video! 😎

@dimitrioskalfakis 8 ай бұрын

memorabilia! i used the smart media cards with an adapter on an hp200lx back in the day and also the flashpath disk to exchange files with a PC. the things people do that seem important at the time!

@Kyanzes 9 ай бұрын

If you are wondering on the speed: the drive itself could do something like 64kb per second but that is due to the mechanical limitations i.e. ~300 RPM. The interface itself (guess depending on the manufacturer) could do anywhere between 250Kbps and 2Mbps which would correspond to about 32KB/sec to 256KB/sec (for an 1.44 drive a ~64KB speed being a good average). So best case scenario would be some 256KB/sec for this flash device. And of course the seeking is also spared, the electronic flash's comparable function would take up negligible time (on the order of 1000 better).

@lactobacillusprime 2 жыл бұрын

Can't believe you procured one. It was on my radar at some point, back in the day. Never got one.

@JesusisJesus 2 жыл бұрын

Fascinating stuff, if it had arrived 5 years earlier. it would have really changed the game. Every time I handle a large capacty Micro-SD Card, I pause for a moment and admire it for the sheer quantity of data I can put on it, how small it is, how THIN it is, and just how I’m only going to use it for one very wasteful task, but how many things it can be used for. This Floppy adaptor deserves a tear down video because the construction of the coil that sends the data to the drive heads is most likely very similar to those cassette tape adaptors for car stereo tape players that opened up the world of portable CD and music players to people with only a cassette player available. Makes ATM card skimming, like JC does in Terminator 2, and code / data injection, RFID & Magnetic Stripes an interesting topic at Hacker Con ‘22

@RetroGameCouch 2 жыл бұрын

Easy money!

@JesusisJesus 2 жыл бұрын

@@RetroGameCouch Yep. I’d say though, that learning about this technology is just as beneficial to people creating ways of defending such hacks, and so it does have legitimate legal reasons for educational purposes by honest hackers to learn about this.

@RetroGameCouch 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely true. Although in all fairness you can't hack an atm with Lo an Atari portfolio. 😎

@JesusisJesus 2 жыл бұрын

@@RetroGameCouch I have met many teenagers that aspire to be Game Developers simply because they are good at enjoying video games, such as mine craft and Fortnite, etc. They have no life skills, no computer programming experience / knowledge, no social skills, and want to play video games for a living, without being able to create them. Sadly there’s millions of them, and they can’t all do it I had the same hopes and aspirations, except I could break into, hack, crack, modify and write software myself by the time I was an adult. I was given the opportunity to write software for 6 years in my 20’s and found it to be extremely tedious, repetitive, boring, methodical, meticulous, and dis-satisfying. How these oversized children expect someone to pay them to play games simply because they went to college for a few years is not going to fly. Some do make it, some attain KZfaq fame, and even fewer achieve Rock Star infamy on other platforms. Go against the crowd, you bump into more people that way. I changed paths in my late 20’s and learned a trade, which pays for my lifestyle.

@RetroGameCouch 2 жыл бұрын

I was very much into the hacking culture. That's why I wrote the games HackTheGame and HackerForever.

@AlejandroRodolfoMendez 2 жыл бұрын

I saw a later one that uses mini SD cards (TF) and didn't required battery on a TV show while ago.

@RetroTechChris 2 жыл бұрын

This is one very cool piece of tech! Thanks for covering it. I enjoyed the video!

@RetroGameCouch 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Chris!

@bitoxic 2 жыл бұрын

The flashpath would have been useful if there were drivers for it on a commodore amiga to be able to transfer files from pc using the memory card. By the way, this was an interesting video! 👍

@bbrtki Жыл бұрын

Nah, coz games still expect games to be split by disk - your best bet it so run them as a hard disk. And there are superdisks that have over 100 MB on them, and also fit in a standard flop 3.5, but you do need a separate drive for them.

@pro5p3c7or1 Жыл бұрын

this is amazing, i did not know that this exist

@hotsauwz 2 жыл бұрын

my dad actually uses a system like this one, he uses it in his keyboard (the instrument) so he can have more midis he can play along to.

@triton199 Жыл бұрын

probably a gotek floppy drive replacement. thats what their original use was before people started writing custom firmwares to use them in classic computers

@FireFlux73 2 жыл бұрын

Wow cool video. I'm into computers for a long time and I didn't even know this existed. Continue the great work. :)

@RetroGameCouch 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! And glad I got to show you something new.

@onigvd77 2 жыл бұрын

gosh I nearly forgot about these adapters, would be cool to have something like that still. Good thing there are other solutions available now for some computers like the FloppyEMU :)

@RetroGameCouch 2 жыл бұрын

FloppyEmu, just like a Gotek, is a floppy drive emulator if I'm reading it right. I think a floppy emulator is 1 step cooler :P

@stressedbyamountainofbooks1 2 жыл бұрын

Nice video! Stuff i didn't knew or used but it's nice to learn.

@RetroGameCouch 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Yeah, this tech is pretty awesome I think.

@vpnconsult 2 жыл бұрын

Gaaf! :D

@triton199 Жыл бұрын

ive got one of these things in its original box around somewhere.

@ellenorbjornsdottir1166 Жыл бұрын

I wonder if I should try to build a "flashpath" clone that emulates a 2M high density floppy disk perfectly. Probably not, huh?

@RetroGameCouch Жыл бұрын

I think it would be an interesting project.

@natr0n 2 жыл бұрын

nice video.

@RetroGameCouch 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@CaptainPiracy 2 жыл бұрын

Works in 3.1, you just can't use the default windows floppy 3 mode driver.. have to change that out.

@theretrogeek2281 2 жыл бұрын

Could this be used to copy game files let’s say from an Amiga with a gotek drive to the flash path using Xcopy? Really am intrigued!

@LoftBits Жыл бұрын

But what about reading the SmartMedia card somewhere else?... Is it a standard FAT or some proprietary format? My universal card reader still has SM slot and I can read SM cards written by my 30yo Clavinova without any problem in Windows 10. Would it read an SM card formatted and written using this contraption?

@RetroGameCouch Жыл бұрын

My older card reader reads them. Standard fat formatted.