What is this Disk Backup Station Thing Anyway?

In this video I'm going to show you a bit about the disk backup station that I made and took to Kickstart 01 - the Amiga show in Nottingham in 2023. I'll show you a little about how it's built and some of its more interesting features. I'm not making or selling these for people, it's purely a one off, although there is the possability I may release all the design files for it in the future. The backup station can backup floppy disks to ADF or SCP and uses three greaseweazle boards to control three floppy drives, and the user interface is controlled bu a few arcade buttons connected to an Arduino.

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🔗 Videos Used • RMC - The Cave: What's on these "Pre-Production" Microprose Disks? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRz9kPdY3NQ • RMC - The Cave: A New Amiga Show in 2023? Kickstart 01 | Retro Road Trip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh1seWwM-JA • Acquire Digital: Shelf-Edge Dynamic Pricing Label and Content Strip Displays https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWAwuO19K8Q

🔗 Useful Links • Arcade Buttons I Used: https://amzn.to/3qiB5xU • USB3 HUB: https://amzn.to/3OlGlcb • USB3 Extention for Front Panel: https://amzn.to/3Kmto0f
• Immortal Joysticks (Not a sponsor): https://www.immortaljoysticks.co.uk/ • Nivrig Games - Turbo Tomato (Not a sponsor): https://nivrig.com/

📖 Chapters (00:00) Three, is a magic number (01:04) Finding a suitable screen (01:25) Printing a design (02:00) Software - The Buttons and Testing (04:24) Software - C++ and Windows (04:05) Graphics Design and User Experience (06:27) Intervening, Kickstart and Meeting People (07:11) Strange Quirks and Easter Eggs (08:02) You'll see it again...!

🎧 Music Used

• "Getting it Done" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

• "The Lift hi" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

• "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

• "Laser Groove" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

• "Envision" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

• "Ouroboros" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

• "Adding the Sun" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

• "Hidden Agenda" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

• "Aerosol of my Love" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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