GreaseWeazle v4 Premium Floppy Drive fully assembled drive
- Premium GreaseWeazle v4 board with hardware warranty (board only).
- 3D printed and stylish case with space for an LED
- Standard HDD Floppy Drive
- Power LED
Premium GreaseWeazle v4 board (purple pcb) has all Japanese capacitors and high quality LD1117 voltage regulator. These are built to last and come with a three year warranty which can be verified at warranty.leapmaker.com
Standard HDD Floppy Drive which can read most any retro and modern 3.5in disk via the GreaseWeazle hardware and software both DD and HD.
** Having trouble working with retro HDD disks? Click here for help.
Stylish 3D printed case with a power LED. The power LED will light up indicating the GreaseWeazle board has power.
Also you may wish to checkout the GreaseWeazle official Facebook group
Software:
The general idea is that the commandline and GUI tools read and write an image file. To access the data you will need software which can read the image file. On Windows the drive does NOT act like a normal storage device, but the image files will have the content from the disk. Besides reading and writing there are commands that can be used for example to convert image files or clean a disk.
- To retrieve content from a floppy you will issue a READ command and specify a new image file where disk will be stored.
- To write an image file to a disk you will issue a WRITE command and specify an existing image file with the contents to write to the disk.
In emulation mode on WinUAE Rob Smith's plug in allows the drive to act as a native drive and can be used with both double density or high density disks.
** Having trouble working with retro HDD disks? Click here for help.
Software
- Command line tools: GreaseWeazle Tools by Keir Fraser
- Windows GUI (requires command line tools): gWeazleGUI by Akutra Cea
- WinUAE support allows the drive to act as a retro DD/HD drive in Amiga emulation: FloppyBridge Plugin by Rob Smith
- Empty Floppy Images allow you to pre-image floppies for a specific size / format here are some AmigaDOS format ADFs
