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    A floppy disk hardware emulator or semi-virtual diskette (SVD) is a device that emulates a floppy disk drive with a solid state or network storage device...
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    3½-inch floppy drive dd (Unix) Disk image Don't Copy That Floppy Floppy disk controller Floppy disk hardware emulator Floppy disk variants Hard disk drive...
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    format disks. dd (Unix) Disk image Disk storage Don't Copy That Floppy Floppy disk controller Floppy disk format Floppy disk hardware emulator Group coded...
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  • protected floppy disks. Disk image creation is called disk imaging and is often time consuming, even with a fast computer, because the entire disk must be...
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    MS-DOS was targeted at Intel 8086 processors running on computer hardware using floppy disks to store and access not only the operating system, but application...
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    USB flash drive (redirect from Disk on key)
    dependent on floppy disks, which require computers to process them. Newer devices are built with USB flash drive support. Floppy disk hardware emulators exist...
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  • Amiga Disk File (ADF) is a file format used by Amiga computers and emulators to store images of floppy disks. It has been around almost as long as the...
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  • physical hardware. A virtual drive is a software component that emulates an actual disk drive, such as an optical disc drive, a floppy disk drive, or...
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  • Emulation on the Amiga (category Macintosh platform emulators)
    two floppy drives and 2 hard drives. The emulator could make use of hardfile devices and then it could handle multiple hard disk files and hard disk partitions...
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    UAE is a computer emulator which emulates the hardware of Commodore International's Amiga range of computers. Released under the GNU General Public License...
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    and some corresponding peripheral hardware like joysticks, mouse, midi, printer, serial and floppy and hard disks. It supports more graphics modes than...
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    series eventually supported over 1,500 software programs. When the Disk II floppy disk drive was released in 1978, a new operating system, Apple DOS, was...
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    Zilog Z80 was used for floppy disk access. The 8088 bus was used for control of all other subsystems, including graphics, hard disk access, and communications...
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    be believed", while criticizing the use of Commodore BASIC 2.0, the floppy disk performance which is "even slower than the Atari 810 drive", and Commodore's...
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    8-inch floppy drives was completed, and they were replaced by a "highly secure solid state digital storage solution" (floppy disk hardware emulator). "Federal...
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    time. The NES can be emulated on many other systems. The earliest known NES emulator was simply named Family Computer Emulator. Developed by Haruhisa...
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  • 'Commodore 64 disk/tape emulation and data transfer' comprises hardware and software for Commodore 64 disk & tape emulation and for data transfer between...
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    QEMU (category PowerPC emulators)
    The Quick Emulator (QEMU) is a free and open-source emulator that uses dynamic binary translation to emulate a computer's processor; that is, it translates...
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    up to 48 KB of RAM (in 16 KB increments), and up to four floppy disk drives and/or hard disk drives. Tandy/Radio Shack provided full-service support including...
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    initiated a MSX revival around an official MSX emulator called MSXPLAYer. This is the only official MSX emulator as all MSX copyrights are maintained by the...
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    distributed as source code only, and later as a pair of downloadable floppy disk images: one bootable and containing the Linux kernel itself, and the...
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    computer hardware. A write protected flash drive containing the operating system and application software can substitute for larger, less reliable disk drives...
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    in 1995). In all models, the monitor's casing included the CPU, RAM, floppy disk drives and power supply for all of the systems' components. All models...
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    this mode. Floppy emulation – Requires storing the boot information in a disk image file suitable for emulating a FAT-formatted floppy disk. SYSLINUX is...
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    released in 1982 to the ZX Spectrum +3 with 128 KB RAM and built-in floppy disk drive in 1987. Throughout its life, the machine primarily competed with...
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    acronym of Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) is a free and open-source emulator designed to recreate the hardware of arcade games, video game consoles...
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    Amiga (section Hardware)
    initialize the Amiga hardware and core components of AmigaOS and then attempt to boot from a bootable volume, such as a floppy disk or hard disk drive. Most models...
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    compatibility with the VIC-20 and Commodore PET. In the United States, the 1541 floppy disk drive was widespread. By contrast, in Europe, the C64 was often used...
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    mice, keyboards, etc.) Computer storage devices such as hard disk, CD-ROM, and floppy disk buses (ATA, SATA, SCSI, SAS) Implementing support for different...
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    DOSBox is a free and open-source emulator which runs software for MS-DOS compatible disk operating systems—primarily video games. It was first released...
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