GUI Floppy

Floppy Panel

This panel configures the emulated floppy disk drives (DF0 to DF3), their types, disk images, and emulation speed.

Floppy Drives

Four drive slots are shown (DF0 through DF3). Each slot has the following controls:

DF0: / DF1: / DF2: / DF3: (Enable checkbox)

• Enables or disables the drive. DF0: is the primary boot drive and is always enabled by default.

Type

• Selects the drive mechanism type. Options:
  • 3.5" DD — Standard 880KB double-density drive (default for most Amiga models)
  • 3.5" HD — 1.76MB high-density drive (A4000 and some accelerated systems)
  • 5.25" (40) — 5.25-inch 40-track drive
  • 5.25" (80) — 5.25-inch 80-track drive
  • 3.5" ESCOM — ESCOM variant of the 3.5-inch drive
  • FB: Normal — FloppyBridge real drive, normal mode
  • FB: Compatible — FloppyBridge real drive, compatible mode
  • FB: Turbo — FloppyBridge real drive, turbo mode
  • FB: Stalling — FloppyBridge real drive, stalling mode

Write Protected

• Prevents writing to the inserted disk image. Equivalent to the physical write-protect tab on a floppy disk.

? (Info button)

• Displays information about the currently inserted disk image.

Eject

• Ejects the currently inserted disk image from the drive.

... (Browse button)

• Opens a file browser to select a disk image to insert.
• Supported formats: .adf, .adz, .dms, .ipf, .zip, .7z, .lha, .lzh, .lzx, .fdi, .scp, .gz, .xz, .hdf, .img

File path dropdown

• Shows the currently inserted disk image path. The dropdown lists recently used disk images (MRU list) for quick re-insertion.

Floppy Drive Emulation Speed

Speed slider

• Controls how fast the emulated floppy drives operate.
• Options:
  • Turbo — Instant loading (may break copy-protected software)
  • 100% (compatible) — Accurate real Amiga speed
  • 200% — Twice real speed
  • 400% — Four times real speed
  • 800% — Eight times real speed

New Floppy Disk Image

Create 3.5'' DD disk

• Creates a new blank 880KB double-density ADF disk image file.

Create 3.5'' HD disk

• Creates a new blank 1.76MB high-density ADF disk image file.

Save config for disk

• Saves the current configuration to a .uae file named after the disk image currently in DF0:.
• Only available when a disk is inserted in DF0:.

DrawBridge (FloppyBridge)

This section is only visible when Amiberry is built with FloppyBridge support, enabling use of real Amiga floppy drives connected via DrawBridge hardware.

DrawBridge driver

• Selects the DrawBridge hardware driver from detected devices.
• Click Refresh to re-scan for available drivers.

DrawBridge: Auto-Detect serial port

• Automatically detects which serial port the DrawBridge hardware is connected to.

Serial port dropdown

• Manually selects the serial port for the DrawBridge connection.
• Only available when auto-detect is disabled.

DrawBridge: Smart Speed (Dynamically switch on Turbo)

• Automatically switches to turbo speed when possible without breaking compatibility.

DrawBridge: Auto-Cache (Cache disk data while drive is idle)

• Caches track data from the real floppy when the drive is idle to improve performance.

DrawBridge: Drive cable

• Selects the drive cable standard used by the connected drive.
• Options: Drive A (IBM PC), Drive B (IBM PC), Drive 0 (SHUGART), Drive 1 (SHUGART), Drive 2 (SHUGART), Drive 3 (SHUGART)