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Mount Floppy Disk Images with Virtual Floppy Drive

Sunday, October 28, 2007

A pile of floppy disksVirtual Floppy Drive allows you to work with the contents of a floppy disk, sans the actual disk and drive. The contents of disks accessed via Virtual Floppy can be read, written, viewed, edited and saved — virtually anything you would expect to do with a traditional floppy disk.

Virtual Floppy is able to mount images of floppy disks in such a way that your computer won’t be able to tell the difference between VFD and the real thing. Floppy disks have been obsolete for a long time now, but I can see this utility coming in very handy for someone who wants to work with a set of antiquated device drivers, or perhaps relive the good ‘ol days of Commander Keen and The Oregon Trail.

Virtual Floppy Drive works on most 32 bit Windows systems, and supports a variety of floppy disk formats from both the 5.25″ and 3.5″ eras.

Link via Chris Pirillo. Photo by steffenz.

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