The 5.25" floppy disk was the principal medium of program storage for the Apple II series of computers. Thousands of software titles were written specifically for the Apple II's Disk II drive and its successors and clones. Using floppy disks, and more specifically disk images, is essential to using an Apple II computer. To use a disk image is to either write the image back to a disk, a cumbersome and sometimes unreliable process, or use a disk emulator. In a recent past blog article, I have written about the Floppy Emu, a very capable Disk II drive emulator. I have recently acquired the wDrive, another emulator device which can simulate a Disk II drive. While similar to the Floppy Emu in many ways, the wDrive has its own benefits and quirks, and here I will compare the two hardware floppy emulators.
