Floppy Drives¶

Using this tab, you can "insert" disks into your virtual Amiga, and adjust floppy speeds.

General¶

Up to 4 floppy drives can be enabled via the check marks and will then be usable in the emulation.
Enable the Write Protected option to emulate the write protect tab on your disk images.
Disable will disable the drive and free up some memory (vital for old games). Note that DF0 is the default drive to boot from, so please use this before other drives.
Eject removes the disk from the drive.
Delete save image deletes the separate file in which WinUAE keeps changes to disk images that it cannot write to directly.
... buttons will show a file picker to insert a disk image.

Floppy Drive Emulation Speed¶

The slider allows changing the emulated disk access speed, from Turbo, 100%, 200%, 400% or 800%. Turbo-floppy speed enables fast writing, and uses the maximum transfer rate from the media that the floppy image is accessed from, i.e. the host hard disk.

New Floppy Disk Image¶

Disk image size. 3.5" DD = 880KB, 3.5" HD = 1.76MB, 3.5" DD (PC) = 720kB, 3.5" HD (PC) = 1.44MB, 5.25" SD = 440kB.
Create Standard Disk creates a blank ADF.
Create Custom Disk allows you to create a special ADF file for saving games onto if the Standard disk does not work.
Disk Label will label the new disk image without having to do so in Workbench.
Bootblock will make the disk bootable.
FFS will format the disk using the Fast File System.