Most retro gamers use emulators to play old school games on their Android device, but iIf you still have your old floppy disk games and a USB floppy drive ($11 at Amazon) you can play them on your Android tablet directly using an Android app port of DOSbox.



YouTube user pedrocatalao found out that by connecting an external floppy drive via USB to his Samsung tablet by way of a docking station and a powered USB hub the tablet had the proper drives to operate the drive. He played the game using an Android port of DOSBox.

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Floppy Disk Drive + Keyboard + Android = Pure Nostalgic Fun | via Hack a Day