Amiga Floppy Emulators

[amigaksi]

Hi All,

 I am recently getting back into Amiga. I been back into the Commodore 64 community for awhile now and have a way of using a SD card instead of a floppy drive to load games, etc... . Since I am getting back into the Amiga and viewing difference sites I've seen a couple SD card reads now for it. One was the HxC Floppy Emulator and the other was the Mega Drive (Mark II).

Are there any more then these two and is one better then the other? I know on the C64 that some 'protected' disks or ones made for specific equipment (i.e.: 1541) did not work. Do these have the same problem? Also, are they still being produced (and in the case of the Mega Drive is it produced at all to where the pubic can buy it)?

Thanks,
MisterMsk

If you have a laptop with a fast parallel port, you can simulate the floppy drive with this item here:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320555594678

It's read-only ADFs or MFM files but I don't know too many boot disks that write to original disk except for some high scores.

[amigaksi]

Fine I agree that a menu like on the ST would be VERY nice but to whinge about its apperance is a joke to me, considering what a great bit of technical kit it is
some people just seem to find fault with anything.



Anyways not to get distracted can anyone answear this



If this is true and ADFs cant be used directly?-More Info Please?

In the software version, I also convert all ADFs to MFM data which is the raw bits that the Amiga floppy port is expecting through the DKRD line.  It's >2X size of ADF because of sync information and redundancies/headers/checksums.  I do it on the fly from ADF->MFM so input file is always ADF.