oh hey, got my USB floppy drive in

time to install that shit and and see if I can start archiving dad's old Amiga disk collection

lol never fucking mind apparently

due to the difference in file systems it's apparently impossible to read these things on windows without adding a card with a different floppy controller chip, and the closest anyone's gotten to writing software that works to override this behavior requires me to have two floppy drives installed directly on the computer, which uh, good luck even getting your hands on non-USB drives without salvaging them from old computers anymore

RIP me I guess

like... you'd think it'd be fairly easy at least in theory to Just Write A Driver For This that I could download and hook up the floppy drive I just got in to preserve all this, but apparently no one's tried to do such a thing and I absolutely do not know nearly enough about programming to write code for that myself

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