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              |_|   |_|    |___/    [+] floppy images -> bootable CDs

~* Make a single Bootable CD with your floppy images! *~

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[ About this Program ]

FloppyBootCD builds bootable CDs from collections of floppy disk images for vintage computers. Drop in your .img / .ima / .imz files, give each one a menu label, hit Build, and get a CD that boots into a menu where you pick which floppy to load.

Each image is loaded into RAM via MEMDISK and presented to the OS as if it were sitting in a real floppy drive — so DOS, Windows 9x, and other INT 13h operating systems boot exactly as they would from physical media.

Cross-platform GUI (PySide6 / Qt6)
Bundled xorriso — no extra installs
ISOLINUX + MEMDISK boot menus
WinImage .imz compressed images, extracted at build time
Live CD-R capacity meter — see usage in MiB before you burn
macOS / Windows / Linux — x86_64 and arm64 (Linux as AppImage, .deb, .rpm, tarball)

[ Download Latest Release NEW! ]

Pick the bundle that matches your machine. All bundles ship with xorriso inside — no separate install needed.

Current release: latest | Published: —

Platform	Architecture	File	Download
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Don't see your platform? 32-bit Windows, 32-bit Linux, armhf, RISC-V and BSD aren't built yet (blocked on upstream PySide6 wheels). Install from source with uv instead.

[ Installation in 30 Seconds ]

macOS

cd ~/Downloads
unzip floppybootcd-*-macos-arm64.zip
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine floppybootcd.app
mv floppybootcd.app /Applications/
open /Applications/floppybootcd.app

Windows

Expand-Archive .\floppybootcd-*-windows-x86_64.zip -DestinationPath C:\Tools\
C:\Tools\floppybootcd\floppybootcd.exe

Linux — AppImage (universal)

chmod +x floppybootcd-*-linux-x86_64.AppImage
./floppybootcd-*-linux-x86_64.AppImage

Linux — Debian / Ubuntu / Raspberry Pi OS

sudo apt install ./floppybootcd-*-linux-x86_64.deb
floppybootcd

Linux — Fedora / RHEL / openSUSE

sudo dnf install ./floppybootcd-*-linux-x86_64.rpm
floppybootcd

Linux — raw tarball (any distro)

tar xzf floppybootcd-*-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
cd floppybootcd
./floppybootcd

Install from source (any platform)

uv tool install git+https://github.com/pacnpal/floppybootcd
floppybootcd

[ System Requirements ]

Bundle	Minimum OS
macOS arm64 / x86_64	macOS 13 (Ventura)
Windows x86_64	Windows 10 1809 (Oct 2018)
Windows arm64	Windows 11 22H2
Linux x86_64	glibc 2.34 (Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12, RHEL 9)
Linux arm64	glibc 2.39 (Ubuntu 24.04, Debian 13, Fedora 40+)