ianfogg , vor einem Monat

@foone Ok, you have me, why do you need USB floppy drive support on a Nintendo Switch?

foone OP , vor einem Monat

@ianfogg I wanna install a switch game rom off floppy disks

Pichu0102 , vor einem Monat

@foone I'm imagining a mini PC with like 50 USB ports and each has a floppy drive and they're in a raid which the micropc presents to the switch as a single USB drive. I think that would be a lot of noise though

RL_Dane , vor einem Monat

@foone

[reads toot]
[looks up from laptop, puzzled]
[reads toot again]
[looks up again]

Yes, these are the nerds we were looking for. Move along, move along. ;)

Jabba:
"Ho ho ho ho... yigh.... Kasu ya nerdu coy rah doe kankee kung... (This nerd is my kind of scum...)"

jack , vor einem Monat

@foone it has been a decade since I really did anything with usb. Have the software tools/libraries around working with usb improved much over the years?

I recall it being a pain in the butt back then, but would have hoped things had improved.

raptor85 , vor einem Monat

@foone why standard floppy when you could go all the way and hook it up to the FDS?

Mirppc , vor einem Monat

@foone @vwbusguy OH NO!!! the switch doesnt support floppies! how will we ever run out floppy apps on the switch! i need my QBSH on the swtich.

1000millimeter , vor einem Monat

@foone Well. I wouldn't have bough a switch with less than three Ethernet connectors in the first place. What shall that be good for.

foone OP , vor einem Monat

I need to hurry up and make that pass-thru device/Alternate USB floppy drive that makes it appear as generic mass storage.

fozztexx , vor einem Monat

@foone Are there any arduinos that have 2 USB ports so one can be host and one can be OTG?

dryak , vor einem Monat

@foone wait, but aren't USB Floppies already general mass storage with a few extra features ("removable")?

Wouldn't the pass-through mostly need to read the unpartitioned disquette with FAT12 filesystem and expose it as a simulated GPT partition table with an exFAT filesystem?
(a bit like the "TV compatibility" mode that some USB ootical drives had)

foone OP , vor einem Monat

@dryak more or less, but they technically use a different protocol, so a lot of embedded devices just ignore them

jaykass , vor einem Monat

@foone a 1.44MB mass storage device

sunoo , vor einem Monat

@foone I’ve had USB floppy drives that show up as mass storage and some that show up as floppy drives. So maybe just try a different model of drive?

Blass_Rose , vor einem Monat

@foone I'm honestly surprised how much backwards compatibility is just left behind in modern operating systems.
Though it is really fun to see modern linux running on an ancient teletype terminal. The poor printer trying to spit out the ascii art of the logo along with the entire EULA.

kalleboo , vor einem Monat

@foone Maybe use a SuperDisk drive that shows up as a translated SCSI disk?