Keir Fraser, Ant Goffart for producing the GreaseWeazleДЄndrew Philips-Martin, Tom Dalby, Krasimir Hristov, Vasyl Samoilov, Denis Lechevalier The Retro community are friendly, vibrant, knowledgeable and helpful, I find that those who develop projects such as this also provide amazing support and I have to acknowledge thank you to the following :. As such it makes it perfect for making digital forensic copies of disks in the past. Via the Retro community I learned of the GreaseWeazle, and at a fundamental level it works by recording the magnetic fluctuations on the disk surface and therefore doesnвЂ™t rely on a specific disk interface to decode those signals.

It also meant that 30+ years later I was unable to preserve accurately the data on the disks due to the protection system still being valid today! This worked well as a proof of concept and made itвЂ™s way onto commercial educational titles. There are some disks that I encoded using a Disk Protection system I created in the 80вЂ™s and 90вЂ™s which meant that standard hardware was unable to accurately duplicate the disk and therefore fail the anti-piracy checks.

IвЂ™ve been transferring my data originally using a USB Floppy Emulator from Zaxon (which I will cover in a separate blog entry because this gadget covers a much different use case scenario).

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