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gloriouscow 2d ago

I'm not about to stick this priceless driver floppy into my sketchy ass tandy drives that haven't been cleaned or re-greased and make sounds kind of like cyborg goats high on jimson weed, first thing I need to do is back it up and make a copy with the ol' greaseweazle.

The bad news is that those divots on the mylar do indeed corrupt the disk, but the good news that they're just corrupting empty, formatted tracks.

#retrocomputing #greaseweazle

it's fun to look through stuff you read with #GreaseWeazle and had sectors missing using the stock software and a year later you have your own software that does it so it so much better :3 *purr*

#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

RecoveryWhiskers

RecoveryWhiskers is an advanced floppy disk recovery capable of talking to a Greaseweazle

Codeberg.org

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

amiga-news.de - Floppy expert: UnifiedFloppyTool (UFT) 4.1.0

screambiogenesis Feb 10

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

Diane Bruce Feb 4

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

The Oasis BBS Feb 3

Floppy Preservation Toolkit: UnifiedFloppyTool v4.0.0 for Flux Imaging
#UnifiedFloppyTool #FloppyDisks #FluxImaging #DiskImaging #RetroComputing #DigitalPreservation #DataRecovery #Greaseweazle #KryoFlux #Amiga #Commodore64 #AtariST #AppleII #TRS80
https://theoasisbbs.com/floppy-preservation-toolkit-unifiedfloppytool-v4-0-0-for-flux-imaging/?fsp_sid=1763

The Oasis BBS Jan 30

Checkmate 1500+ makeover for an Amiga 3000 look
#Amiga #Amiga3000 #Checkmate1500Plus #RetroComputing #3DPrinting #Greaseweazle #FloppyDisks #RetroHardware #Workbench #ClassicComputing
https://theoasisbbs.com/checkmate-1500-makeover-for-an-amiga-3000-look/?fsp_sid=1514

FluxMyFluffyFloppy, a Greaseweazle Tools GUI for Windows, in version 5.2.7 now also supports a fourth floppy drive.

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-01-00062-EN.html

#Greaseweazle #GUI #GreaseweazleTools #Amiga

amiga-news.de - Windows: Greaseweazle GUI FluxMyFluffyFloppy 5.2.7

Dirk Müller Jan 14

Bald! #greaseweazle