Emulating a Floppy Drive By Emulating The Drive Itself

The Commodore 1541 is famously the floppy drive for the Commodore 64 series of 8-bit computers, and can be found with relative ease. Not so well known is its 1551 sibling — the drive made for the Commodore 16 and Plus/4 machines. They’re particularly rare in 2026, so [Maciej Witkowiak] has made an emulator .