# keirf/flashfloppy

Floppy drive emulator for Gotek hardware

Repository: https://github.com/keirf/flashfloppy
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/flashfloppy
Language: C
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2025-12-16T10:00:11+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 55/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 57, release rhythm 28, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4335, "days_push": 260, "days_rel": 508, "gap_med": 79, "n_releases_24m": 2}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1606, forks 239 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:10.409348+00:00)

## What it is
FlashFloppy is open-source firmware that turns Gotek hardware into a floppy drive emulator for retro computers, synths, and industrial machinery. It reads and writes many disk image formats from a USB stick, replacing unreliable physical floppy disks.

## Use cases
- emulate a floppy drive on an Amiga or Atari ST using USB disk images
- replace failing floppy disks on a retro PC with image files
- load disk images into a vintage synthesizer or sampler
- use a Gotek drive with multiple retro machine types
- read and write various floppy image formats like ADF and IMG
- configure flexible track layouts for raw sector images

## When to choose
- you own Gotek hardware and want the most widely supported floppy emulator
- you need to boot or load software on retro machines without real floppies
- you want an actively maintained, highly configurable emulator firmware

## When to avoid
- you need floppy emulation on hardware other than Gotek
- you want a software-only emulator running on a modern PC
- you need write support for exotic copy-protected formats not supported by the firmware

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: stable
- function: embedded, file-system, developer-tools
- domain: hardware, embedded-systems, gaming-tools
- platform: embedded, cross-platform
- tags: floppy-emulator, gotek, retro-computing, disk-images, firmware, usb-stick

## Member repositories
- keirf/flashfloppy (main) score 55

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:10.409348+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:52:14.258629+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/keirf/flashfloppy (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:10.409348+00:00, sha 18fe46ce4f64)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.