MP3@64 stuttering and skipping

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A floppy port interface should at least be support DMA transfers from chip memory to whatever was dangling off the end of it. Not sure how easily it could be implemented though as the hardware will use MFM encoding.

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I see Chris beat me to it

The Amiga did no MFM encoding in hardware! IIRC that was all done by the trackdisk.device (Some one really should write a trackdisk.device with 8b/10b encoding)

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Hmm, I thought there was something in Paula that did it. It's been a long time since I looked at this stuff

Assuming there is no hardware MFM, then even better. One less thing to worry about on the device end. You've got a DMA driven serial port that should be able to shift data at a high enough bitrate for a lot of mp3s...

Without meaning to disparage the old lady (25years isn't old!!!), she was a simple little beast... but that is why she was so flexible... I think the amiga could even read the weird Mac disk encoding schemes, with the right software... Näturlich...

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Theoretically then, what's the show stopper for using the floppy port to send data to a device that expects to recieve serial information?

I always thought the floppy connector was an underutilised expansion port.

I used to think the same... but now, it's just non-standard low speed serial port, which probably requires quite a bit of work to interface with... the clockport is simply easier and fast as it sits on the 68k's bus...

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Why not off the joystick port?  I hear the Amiga joystick ports are fast. ;-)

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