GREASEWEASLE
greaseweasle

Greaseweazle V4.1 USB Floppy Adapter

Original price was: €24,90.Current price is: €22,90. (excl. VAT)

PRODUCTION NEARING COMPLETION: SHIPMENTS AVAILABLE NEXT WEEK

New version Greaseweazle V4.1 allows versatile floppy drive control over USB. Read and write your vintage floppy disks from your PC/Linux/Mac computer.

This USB device lets you to connect an old floppy disk drive to your modern computer to read/write floppy disks from any system with Shugart standard drives (Amiga, Atarí, Commodore, Amstrad, Sinclair, PC, CNC machines, musical instruments, industrial equipment, and many more.)

Now available an amazing case. We areauthorized resellers of Zero Flux Development’s Greaseweazle.

Available on backorder

Description

By extracting the raw flux transitions from a drive, any disk format can be captured and analyzed. The Greaseweazle V4.1 also supports writing to floppy disks, from a range of image file formats including those commonly used for online preservation (ADF, IPF, DSK, IMG, HFE, …).

Features of version 4.1 of Greaseweazle (the new features of version 4.1 compared to version 4 in bold):

• Reads and writes 3″, 3.5″, 5.25″, 8″ disks (with suitable drive and cable)
• Buffered outputs, for communicating with older 5.25″ and 8″ disk drives
• Integrated power connector for directly powering most 3.5″ disk drives
• USB 5V isolation jumper (to power the board via floppy power connector, useful for solutions with separate PSU)
• Form factor, including bigger mount holes
• Correctly keyed floppy header for PC drive cables (pin 5 is missing)
• USB-C connector
• ESD protection for USB data lines
• Over-current protection on USB power line
• Write-enable jumper can be removed for safer preservation of precious vintage disks
• Supports floppy-modded 5.25″ drives
• Supports read/write operations in WinUAE Amiga emulator
• Supports Disk-Change detection as used by Rob Smith’s integration into the WinUAE Amiga emulator
• Header for external LEDs
• 3 user-definable outputs (eg. 8″ interface REDWC signal)
• New PCB colour
• 100% factory tested before shipping

This listing is for the Greaseweazle V4.1 device only. You will additionally require:

  • A disk drive (for example a PC 3.5″ or 5.25″ drive)
  • A floppy ribbon cable (typically you want a standard PC cable with ‘twist’ on pins 10-16, to communicate with a PC floppy drive)
  • Floppy drive power cable, or power supply

Recommended host OS: Windows 8, Windows 10, Ubuntu Linux. Windows 7 and most versions of macOS and Linux should also work (but less tested).

More information and documentation on Wiki: https://github.com/keirf/Greaseweazle/wiki/V4.1-Setup, also a very recommended reading, excellent article from Epsilonsworld, Greaseweazle v4 – using real Amiga disks on Windows 11.

Additional information

Weight0,050 kg

Related products