USB Floppy Drives + DOSbox

[Hatta]

The most commonly used software for that is Winimage.

If it's OS X, you can use cat or dd to make a floppy image easily. Mount the floppy image, then open up a terminal and type 'mount'. This will list the mounted devices and their paths. Find the line for the floppy mount and write down the device location. It will be '/dev/something'

Now that you know the floppy device, making an image is easy. Just type 'dd if=/dev/something of=floppy.img' Replace "something" with the appropriate file name from above.

It's essentially the same process as Creating Classic Mac Boot Floppies in OS X, but with 'if' and 'of' swapped. You won't need the 'skip' or 'bs' options.

[GryeDor]

Forgot I made this thread

Thanks for all the tips guys, I do like the idea of backing up the floppies before anything else to preserve the data so I'll definitely do that if I move ahead on this.

I'm not sure what you mean by the graphics will be difficult. Dosbox emulates everything, the sound card, the Cpu, the graphics card, everything.

Yeah, silly me, I was recalling running older PC games through WinXP in "Compatibility Mode" and it ALWAYS had problems. So kind of assumed it would be the same, but DUH! Emulation!

With all the positive consensus, I'm going to have to move ahead on this when I can. The USB drives I saw were in the $16-$18 range so not a problem at all, really.

I'll let you all know how it turns out!