FloppyBank
Desktop program to prepare and repair USB drives for Gotek floppy emulators, on Linux and Windows.
- Year
- 2026
- Type
- Personal
- Disciplines
- Research
Development process
Gotek emulators replace a physical floppy drive with a USB stick split into many virtual disks. FloppyBank is a tool of my own, developed with AI assistance, for managing those drives without relying on the original program.
What it solves
It formats the USB into 100 positions of 1.44 MB, 1.2 MB or 720 KB, adds, copies and renames files on each disk, imports and exports raw images, and repairs a single disk or the whole drive. It saves a copy before changing anything.
Status
It has automated tests and has been tried with an image of a real USB and in Wine as Windows XP. It has not yet been tested on real Windows, writing to a physical USB or on the emulator itself, so I present it as work in progress.