Jim Drew opens website + info on SuperCard Pro

[RobertB]

Jim Drew, veteran programmer and hardware developer, has opened up his new website,

          http://www.cbmstuff.com

Still a work in progress, his website right now offers the SX-64 Ultra Reset and the much-awaited SuperCard Professional, touted to be better than a Kryoflux board at reading/copying and writing floppy disks from virtually any computer platform. Here are the final specifications of SuperCard Pro --

CPU: 40 MIPS (PIC24HJ256GP210A)
RAM: 512K STATIC, 55ns
USB: FTDI 240X FIFO, Full Speed
SERIAL: Dual RS232 ports, one full or half duplex, one half duplex
FLOPPY: 34 pin standard PC floppy interface, fully bi-directional
SD-CARD: Micro SD card slot (1GB or larger cards)
RESOLUTION: 25ns
POWER: USB can power 3.5" drive directly, external power supply required for 5.25" drives
MISC.: Future expansion port for IEC interface, future cycle exact 1541 drive emulator, possible SD2IEC.
SOFTWARE: disk copier/imager and analyzer software compatible with Win95-Win8.1

          On the waiting list for a SC Pro,
          Robert Bernardo
          Fresno Commodore User Group
          http://videocam.net.au/fcug
          The Other Group of Amigoids
          http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
          Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network
          http://www.sccaners.org

[yssing]

Greate

[persia]

Ah the guy with the biggest dongle, the emplant.

[JimDrew]

Ha!  Not a dongle when all of the parts were fully functional - for both Amiga and Mac sides.  Even while using our MacPro and FUSION emulations, those with EMPLANT boards always selected the "EMPLANT hardware" option because any Mac app poking at hardware would find real hardware.  This is why we had a 100% compatibility with the EMPLANT setup.  EMPLANT was basically a Mac II motherboard without the CPU/FPU/NuBus slots on a Zorro II card.

[magnetic]

Hey Jim

Thanks for visiting and glad you are still hacking hardware!