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HCX Floppy emulator - Limited Production Run
« on: November 14, 2009, 02:31:36 PM »
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Re: HCX Floppy emulator - Limited Production Run
« Reply #1 on: November 14, 2009, 02:34:54 PM »
Interesting.  Anybody have any experiences they wish to share using this?
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Re: HCX Floppy emulator - Limited Production Run
« Reply #2 on: November 14, 2009, 02:47:55 PM »
I wonder why this kind of device is more established on the market.

I am thinking you could make a fortune selling such a device on the Amiga market where you can put ADF/DMS on a memstick and load it on a real Amiga.

Ok, maybe not a fortune, but I guess it could sell really well, and better than well if it supported more hardware.
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Re: HCX Floppy emulator - Limited Production Run
« Reply #3 on: November 14, 2009, 03:00:23 PM »
That's what I was thinking as well.. memory card with DMS or ADF images.   Maybe have a simple firmware that boots to a menu first and allows lets you select the image to boot.  But then how would you handle changing disks?   You'd need a switch on the device to toggle between preset images.
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Re: HCX Floppy emulator - Limited Production Run
« Reply #4 on: November 14, 2009, 03:56:11 PM »
It would have been great if it read adf images from flash memory.... but hooking it up to a PC... meh.
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Re: HCX Floppy emulator - Limited Production Run
« Reply #5 on: November 14, 2009, 04:03:36 PM »
Yeah, hooking it up to a Windows machine is lame :-(
SD card like minimig would be cool and get my order.
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Re: HCX Floppy emulator - Limited Production Run
« Reply #6 on: November 14, 2009, 04:05:00 PM »
If you go to HCX's official site you can see that they have designed a flash based solution... they should have made a run of those instead!
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Re: HCX Floppy emulator - Limited Production Run
« Reply #7 on: November 14, 2009, 04:13:17 PM »
I wonder why they've chosen the silly hook upto PC design to produce over the other?
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Re: HCX Floppy emulator - Limited Production Run
« Reply #8 on: November 14, 2009, 04:16:07 PM »
Yeah, fail. :P
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Re: HCX Floppy emulator - Limited Production Run
« Reply #9 on: November 14, 2009, 10:29:43 PM »
I need to have my say on this one as well. I agree that the MMC based version would be *MUCH* more popular than the USB based version. I have a 1541 Ultimate for my C64 and it is a damn good product - so good in fact that i don't actually own any floppy disks anymore - and a similar device for the Amiga would probably mean the same thing (bare essential backups/originals)!

I have been waiting keenly for a production run of the MMC based version, but it seems runs of the USB version are what is happening. I suppose this is more aimed at those producing them to sell - why? Why o why?

*EDIT* - I just emailed the seller to ask "why?". We'll see what they say.
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Re: HCX Floppy emulator - Limited Production Run
« Reply #10 on: November 14, 2009, 11:13:03 PM »
There are probably enough people that have their Amiga's close to their PCs (or laptops) that it's worth looking at...

I had two issues when I was looking at it earlier...

It wasn't read/write, but read only.  Can't tell from the page whether that's changed or not.

Also, it only supported floppy sizes..  I know, it's a floppy emulator :roflmao:, but it would have been nice if it supported a read/write virtual floppy of 10M or so, so you wouldn't need a HD for those who don't have one..  Just a thought.  

If it did those, even at about $90 USD, it would probably be worth it, but that is a lot of money.

Of course, if it did those, AND was SD.. ;-)

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Re: HCX Floppy emulator - Limited Production Run
« Reply #11 on: November 15, 2009, 12:50:18 AM »
I will start another thread asking for interest in a flash based version, that way we can then direct the author of the hardware to it and he/she can make up their mind about a possible run.
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