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Does the application co-work with real floppy drives?

Applies to: RIDE 1.7 and later

Yes, it does. At this moment, the application mediates access to the following floppy controllers (alphabetically):

Internal PC floppy controller, via Simon Owen's fdrawcmd (reading, writing, and reproduction of some errors). Read the driver's webpage on minimal requirements and installation. This driver is required only for access to the internal floppy controller and isn't required for any other supported device. Please notice the underlined word "internal" – to my best knowledge (and sparing you the details) no application can arbitrarily access an external PC floppy drive (e.g. TEAC FD-05PUW External USB Floppy Drive) to the extent that it could read, for instance, Atari or Amiga floppies.
Keir Fraser's Greaseweazle V4.x (reading and writing), Windows XP pre-SP3 users must manually install and configure the usbser.sys driver that comes on XP SP3 installation CD. Python doesn't have to be installed!
Software Preservation Society's KryoFlux (reading and writing). Read the driver's webpage on minimal requirements and installation. The proprietary DTC application doesn't have to be installed!