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Re: Current status
« on: December 29, 2005, 11:13:55 AM »
Fantastic effort! Hope you get it finished - this'd make an ideal accessory to turn an A500 or A600 into a fully portable and fully loaded machine without worrying about ageing floppies!

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Re: Floppy emulator
« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2006, 01:46:46 AM »
Ah, cool, so you effectively use the PC as a disk image fileserver...

Does it cope with protected disks and the extended ADF format, or CAPS images?

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Re: Floppy emulator
« Reply #2 on: April 11, 2006, 11:36:37 PM »
Good stuff! Keep us all updated!

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Re: Floppy emulator
« Reply #3 on: November 04, 2006, 04:53:49 AM »
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Another project still keeps me busy.


Ooh! Do tell! What is it?!  :-)

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Re: Keepalive
« Reply #4 on: December 21, 2006, 10:11:06 PM »
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Here's a nice new LCD I'm considering to include in future design: it is a cheap COG 133x65 LCD with I2C interface.


Looks good, and a reasonable resolution/size on that... How cheap is "cheap", and going off-topic a bit, how easy is it to interface one of those to an old 8-bit Z80 or 6502-based system?

Keep up the work on the floppy emulator though!

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Re: Keepalive
« Reply #5 on: January 29, 2007, 08:31:40 PM »
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There also is a possibility of adding Write support...


Ooh! Yes please - this'd make it very useful indeed!

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Re: Update
« Reply #6 on: July 11, 2008, 02:09:49 PM »
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I admit I never ever heard of this feature before. :-o But how is it possible? The file systems are completely incompatible


Ah, you never experienced the ST Amiga Format coverdisks!

I'm not 100% sure of the technical details, but believe the ST side of things was to mark the disk as single-sided and any Amiga-specific tracks/sectors as "bad" as far as the ST was concerned.

Likewise for the Amiga, it was marked to use the other side of the disk and the ST tracks/sectors as "bad".

It also helped that the Amiga would look at track 40 for its directory, etc, whereas the ST would look at track zero.

Something like that, anyway! It was a long time ago!

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