It’s called WHDLoad, and it’s a dream come true. In the case of the last, however, the floppy emulator is hardly needed, and that’s because of something the Amiga community has going for it that I consider to be much, much better. I personally have such devices installed in three systems: an Apple IIe, an Atari 520ST, and an Amiga 2000. No longer are physical spinning floppy disks needed to boot up most vintage systems, thanks to these embedded controllers that allow disk image files sitting an SD card to be used in lieu of physical media. One of the most influential class of devices that has made things easier for retrocomputing folks is the flash memory-based floppy disk emulator. This is in large part due to the evolving technology that has brought devices that have made vintage hardware more accessible to users.
I’ve been in the retrocomputing scene for about 15 years now and in that time I’ve seen the interest in the pursuit grow more and more.
