Gotek and similar drive emulators do mean the end of floppy drives for many, me included. It is so much easier storing all your floppy disks as virtual digital ADFs and just copying them to a USB stick to load them on a real Amiga, and any other platform for that matter. No need to have a ton of disk boxes and worry about failing disks or read/write errors.
This will help to safeguard the ongoing future of retro hardware. We can already keep the motherboards working as those in the scene with enough electronics experience can resurrect even the worst Amiga motherboard these days with track repairs and cap replacements.. so our Amigas could go on for a long time still. Floppy drives and disks however just won't.
It does mean however that I have to finally get my finger out and continue going through my floppy disk collection and archiving them to ADF using my Kryoflux.
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Originally Posted by Harrison:
It does mean however that I have to finally get my finger out and continue going through my floppy disk collection and archiving them to ADF using my Kryoflux.
Are you keeping your bought copies of software and games? I wasn't sure if I should keep mine anymore as they may become worthless when they stop reading?
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