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Tool for the TK2000 home computer to copy DOS 3.3 formatted floppies.
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README.md

The FLOPPICATOR

DISCLAIMER

Any use of this project is under your own responsibility. By using this project You will agree that I cannot be held responsible if it will destroy any of your devices, damage your computer, burn down your house or whatever.

Introduction

I recently built myself a Microdigital TK2000 clone. This clone is almost-but-not-really Apple II compatible, and most low level software (like floppy duplicators) fail to work correctly (or at all).

The only original TK2000 software I have available to handle copying from one floppy to another, is meant for the original TK2000 disk interface, which supported only a single drive. This poses a problem when I want to copy something from my FloppyEMU to a real floppy. I could setup a greaseweazle, but... sometimes I'm lazy.

So I developed a simple copier that takes all the sector data from the disk in the primary drive and copies it to the secondary. Note that this supports DOS 3.3 sector structure only, and the destination disk must be formatted beforehand.

THE FLOPPICATOR 1.0, grid view

Support

If you wish to support me in building new hardware and software for old machines, throw a few euros in my direction via Ko-Fi ☕!

Current state

It works. It will copy the content of a DOS 3.3 based disk from the primary drive to the secondary, 7 tracks at a time, and then verify what was written via CRC8.

It's a bit slow (takes roughly 6 minutes including data verification), but You're not going to run a disk mastering business with this, right?

How to play

Start with a floppy containing the FLOPPICATOR. Once you get to the initial screen, remove the FLOPPICATOR disk, put in what you want to copy, then insert the destination in the secondary drive.

Then push a button. A track/sector grid will appear.

Then wait.

Once it finishes, you can repeat the procedure as many times as you want.

Floppy version

Just put your floppy in the first drive and power on the TK2000. It will autoboot.

How to build

You need the following:

The future

What future?