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by maaarghk 914 days ago
Could be useful / fun to make a USB floppy drive which supports non standard layouts like Commodore and AKAI.
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A couple of examples:

- https://decromancer.ca/greaseweazle/

- https://www.cbmstuff.com/index.php?route=product/product&pro...

I think it'd be interesting to connect a high sensitivity / resolution sampling probe directly to the analog output of the drive heads. You could do software-defined signal processing to potentially recover damaged data. These USB-based tools are getting the signal after being amplified in the analog domain and processed by the drive's electronics.