Does anyone ever use their Amiga floppy drive anymore?

[nekworm]

i only use internal gotek drives in my 500 and 1200, most of the time i don't even use it to mount disk images, but to copy really small files from my usb drive
way easier for me, but i kinda agree that its not exactly the same without a real fdd

 

[Hookazoid]

One of the first things I did after resurrecting my Amiga from storage was put in a GoTek. That's mostly because 95% of my floppies were simply giving me read errors. In hindsight, maybe I should have just cleaned the drive, heh. But now that I'm used to the GoTek, there's no going back

 

[captainmoomoo]

I have all my software on HDD, e.g. WHDLoad games. But, sometimes, for nostalgia's sake, I'll write an ADF to disk and go old skool. There's nothing else quite like it, and for that reason, I will *always* have a real FDD in my Amiga.

 

[Xenon2022]

I use it for the same reasons I did back in the 90s. Sure I have WHDload and all of that, but there's nothing quite like the real thing and booting a game off of a disk. It's also convenient for quick file transfers with a modern PC using CrossDOS etc if you're using an Amiga without USB or ethernet, etc. I also use floppies to boot C64 games, although I do use JiffyDOS with it.

Yes, I do use the floppy drive, at least until I manage to get the cf card reader and IDE port activated on my Amiga 600.
Unfortunately the Amiga I purchased came with a very old and outdated Kickstart ROM chip.
Even so once these are activated, I will never remove the floppy disk drive. I feel it’s best to keep the Amiga 600 as original as much as possible.

 

[Chris1982]

Although I own a Gotek drive, nothing beats the purring sound of a real floppy disk drive. From time to time IPF and ADF images are also written back to disk with greaseweazle and then a few games are played.

 

[Lynn]

I think I somewhat recently used mine to write some disk images to because I couldn't get a mounter to work for some reason :B

 

[nikosidis]

I use them. I have a gotek and use that the most but it is cool and even convenient with floppy disks at times.

 

[katzazakis]

I still use mine. Had some tries with internal GoTeks, but its not the Amiga feeling, i want.
therefore it lives in an old external disc case now, giving me best of both worlds with an boot selector.

 

[Stevexkr]

I just purchased a barebones A500 and it comes with a (hopefully working) floppy drive.. I'm torn between keeping it, somehow getting floppys etc but recapture that old school feel, vs just ripping it out and 'going' with the GoTek for convenience sake.. I have an old synthesizer I'm needing to make the same decision on.. Fix the drive or yank it and throw in a gotek, but there's just some nostalgic about the physical media. I almost want to see (and pretty sure i've seen it at least once) about being able to do both, but have the usb/cf slot elsewhere and be able to toggle between either

 

[rimmer]

I bought an old external Amiga floppy drive, shelved the internal drive mechanism, and used the case for a gotek. Works like a charm for me, and I thus get to keep a "stock" A500 that way. Although, booting from the external gotek is a no-go from WB 1.3.

 

[Hook]

I will often download from a PC .adf releases of new games or demos from non Amiga-friendly sites, add them to my Gotek USB thumbrive, then copy them over to floppy using XCopy. There's something so nostalgic in using that program, and the satisfying boing at the end is icing on the cake.

Also, some whdload games don't have trainers so I will often resort to the floppy version of the game. Sadly, more and more disks have bad sectors and cleaning them doesn't always do the trick. I try to enjoy this dying medium as often as possible because one day, they won't be around anymore.

 

[StrongARM]

I do because *someone* needs to save images from somewhere................

 

[ElectroBlaster]

I do!

I have so many ways of imaging and writing disks. But the Amiga with a working floppy drive feels right and I will continue for as long as possible.

 

[StanMoonie]

I use a floppy because I love to see the crack intros on games, back in 89 90 91 I loved watching the crack intros then and the infighting over who screwed the crack up!

 

[Watson]

I use a floppy because I love to see the crack intros on games, back in 89 90 91 I loved watching the crack intros then and the infighting over who screwed the crack up!

Me too! And you can still watch all of these using a Gotek, but still, there's nothing quite the same as using the real floppy drive

 

[StrongARM]

Right, but from time to time I'd like to get creepy bootviruses on my floppy disks.

 

[StrongARM]

Just to add for the geeks: How ever will you be able to run floppymusic on a gotek?!

So, drives(even diskdrives) have a purpose!

 

[FastRobPlus]

To answer the original question, I still use floppies fairly regularly. For a while now I've been fitting each of my Amigas with an FZ or FB 357a high density drive because I often find that the quickest and easiest way to get a file from my PC to the Amiga is to copy it onto a 1.44MB DOS formatted disk. Obviously there are tons of ways to move files around but I seem to keep coming back to this method.

 

[pvanb]

Absolutely.....without that nostalogic clicking, it just would not be the same. Besides I have several hundred original disks and it is convemient to just pop one in and start a game. As backups as well

 

[Mucky]

Used to do Gotek only because all my internal drives were dead. Just bought a nice DF1: external (bootable using ACA500+) and am so happy to have a physical drive again after so many years.