Subj : Re: Floppy Emulator
To   : Lordwoodoo
From : hollowone
Date : Thu Feb 27 2025 02:35:19

 Lo>  Do you think we can use these Gotek as a floppy boot disk installer
 Lo> (emulating  the floppy at boot startup)? For exemple: to install MSDOS
 Lo> or Windows 3.1? It  would save a lot of time to have a whole selection
 Lo> of floppy images stored on  the Gotek, and be able to do this kind of
 Lo> things. Saving Floppy Disks at the  same time..

I believe this should work, but I'm sure retro PC is so much dominated by emulation, nobody cared to check on a real vintage computers. some less vintage should boot from CD or USB easily and I'm sure there are plenty of ways how to kick-off DOS from such media instead of floppy emulator.

-h1

.... Xerox Alto was the thing. Anything after we use is just a mere copy.

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