A floppy disk included with the Pippin/Macintosh version of Tamagotchi CD-ROM.
Floppy disks are a removable storage medium in which data is recorded onto a flexible magnetic surface.
Pippin floppy disks[edit | edit source]
The default media for the Pippin platform are CD-ROMs, but the consoles can be expanded with a Pippin expansion dock to read and write saved game files to floppy disks. Pippin floppies are formatted in HFS, the file system used by Macintosh computers at the time.[1] To directly access files on a floppy disk, a software shell such as PEASE or Macintosh on Pippin can be used.[2]
An emulated floppy drive can be accessed with Macintosh on Pippin.
The floppy drive can be emulated through a floppy extension daughtercard to a FloppyEmu unit, which allows the use of a Secure Digital (SD) card to store multiple 400K, 800K, and 1.4MB disk images.[2][3] This can be a viable storage alternative for early Pippin Atmarks with revision 1.0 "KINKA" ROMs as they do not support external SCSI drives without a 1.2 ROM upgrade.[4][5][6]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Video Game Bible 1985-2002, p.61 by Andy Slaven, Trafford Publishing. 2002.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 A floppy drive for the Bandai Pippin by Piérre Dandumont, Journal du Lapin. 2017-09-03.
- ↑ Floppy Emu and the Apple Pippin by Steve Chamberlin, Big Mess o' Wires. 2017-08-18.
- ↑ FDユニット自作 その１ (Japanese) by Kankoba, MAISON PiPPiN, GeoCities. Archived 2002-03-05.
- ↑ SCSI接続その１ (Japanese) by Kankoba, MAISON PiPPiN, GeoCities. Archived 2002-11-15.
- ↑ PEASE Turbo Support Page, Maki Enterprise. Accessed 2017-04-16.
See also[edit | edit source]
External links[edit | edit source]
- A Floppy Drive for Apple's Pippin by Brian Benchoff at Hackaday (2017-09-04)
- A virtual floppy drive for the Apple Pippin (French) at Le Journal du Lapin (2017-06-25)
- Floppy disk at the Apple Wiki
- Floppy disk at Wikipedia
