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Offline Jeff_HxC

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Re: Floppy emulator
« Reply #89 on: April 11, 2006, 12:03:47 AM »
Hi tnt23

I work on a similar project since January. My floppy emulator is a parallel port interface for PC with 2 SRAM buffers (2* 32Ko) and an shift register and some others TTL components. The PC send in real time the MFM flow to the floppy interface.

Actually this interface works for Atari ST and Amiga.

To see some pictures of the prototype of this interface go to this page (in French) :

http://jeanfrancoisdelnero.free.fr/floppy_drive_emulator/

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Re: Floppy emulator
« Reply #90 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 #91 on: April 11, 2006, 08:47:58 PM »
Not for the moment but the software will cope with these formats soon.  :-)
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Re: Floppy emulator
« Reply #92 on: April 11, 2006, 11:36:37 PM »
Good stuff! Keep us all updated!

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Re: Floppy emulator
« Reply #93 on: April 13, 2006, 03:08:24 PM »
Jeff,

Cool stuff. I guess you just upload track or two to SRAM and then shift the data out clocking from the PC? Neat!
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Re: Floppy emulator
« Reply #94 on: May 17, 2006, 03:25:55 PM »
Any updates on the project?


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Re: Floppy emulator
« Reply #95 on: May 19, 2006, 07:23:41 AM »
Unfortunately, no updates on the project so far.

That's because I've been busy releasing an even more exciting project - my second baby was born on April, 10, and it's a boy! :-D

I guess I'll get back to floppy emulator quite soon.
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Re: Floppy emulator
« Reply #96 on: May 19, 2006, 07:40:06 AM »
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That's because I've been busy releasing an even more exciting project - my second baby was born on April, 10, and it's a boy!


Congratulations!

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Re: Floppy emulator
« Reply #97 on: May 21, 2006, 05:54:42 PM »
Congratulations!

Have you decided if you want to make it open source or a commersial product?



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Re: Floppy emulator
« Reply #98 on: May 22, 2006, 08:17:30 AM »
@Mikkel

That's the only design that doesn't need neither schematics nor special equipment for building. Everyone can DIY this :-)
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Re: Floppy emulator
« Reply #99 on: May 22, 2006, 09:09:20 AM »
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That's the only design that doesn't need neither schematics nor special equipment for building. Everyone can DIY this


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Re: Floppy emulator
« Reply #100 on: May 23, 2006, 06:06:52 PM »
Why not just use the Amiga RAM disk or RAD to unpack DMS or ADF too.....
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Re: Floppy emulator
« Reply #101 on: May 24, 2006, 06:19:28 AM »
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AnamigaKid wrote:
Why not just use the Amiga RAM disk or RAD to unpack DMS or ADF too.....


Sounds far too complicated if I only want to watch a few demos on my unexpanded A500  :-o
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Re: Floppy emulator
« Reply #102 on: June 07, 2006, 05:20:48 PM »
hi!Floppy emulator ok?
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Re: Floppy emulator
« Reply #103 on: July 30, 2006, 08:50:59 AM »
Very cool project.

Any sort of updates?
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Re: Floppy emulator
« Reply #104 from previous page: August 01, 2006, 08:56:50 AM »
No updates yet, sorry.

Probably will revive the project right after the Chaos Constructions 2006 party taking place in St.Petersburg, Russia this August, where the emulator will be shown.

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