And just like that, someone generously uploaded complete and brand new Greaseweazle flux streams of the Sim City Graphics diskettes to the Internet Archive. Up until today, these streams had been missing from my personal collection. I'm so grateful to the retro community for sharing all of these precious data!

These disks are part of Digitoxin's "Maxis" collection: https://archive.org/details/20230521

#SimCity #KryoFlux #Greaseweazle #Diskette #FloppyDisk #Preservation #Retro #Tech #80s #90s #RetroGaming

I had a hunch buying this floppy off eBay, and it paid off. The number rather dangerously scrawled on there with ball point is indeed a new driver version, previously unknown.

Version 3.5 Warp Speed light pen drivers and version 3.5 of their CONTROLLER shell.

The copyright date is also 1989, which is about when I figured they went kaput. Interestingly the driver does not say warp speed anymore, it says "Future Tech Software" and credits a Frank Taylor.

Clean flux dump.

#retrocomputing #greaseweazle

#RecoveryWhiskers 0.5.0 is out.

You can now modify the desired numbers of reads you want your data to have and cycle through all flux rotations:

https://codeberg.org/JennyFluff/RecoveryWhiskers

#retroComputing #softwareArchiving #floppy #GreaseWeazle

UnifiedFloppyTool is a cross-platform tool for working with floppy disk images, offering a uniform interface and functionality for creating, editing and managing various formats of classic floppy disk images. Version 4.1.0 offers, among others, the following changes:

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-02-00087-EN.html

#retrocomputing #KryoFlux #Greaseweazle #Amiga

I found a disk with a odd format: 720k. Normal for a DSDD 3½" disk under DOS, but this is a *5¼"* disk.

Greaseweazle will image it just fine if you tell it to read an IBM 720k 3½ disk and point it at a 5¼ drive.

PC98 had a 720k 5¼ format, but this ain't it, at least according to GW's pc98.* tools. Plus, it's all English, so.

IBM DOS & MS-DOS will give a file listing, but trying to access any files causes the drive to make awful noises.

#RetroComputing #Floppy #Greaseweazle

I've been meaning to pick one of these up for a while. Sheer laziness on my part.

A Greaseweazle from decromancer.ca

An old old friend of mine dropped a letter into the box as well! @wohali

https://social.sdf.org/@elb/114889457432639331

#BSD #GreaseWeazle