Floppy emulator

[tnt23]

Just bought an IDE/CF converter board. Plugged it in, wrote some quick and dirty IDE code, fixed a couple of issues. Surprisingly, it works.

http://www.amiga.org/gallery/index.php?n=1921=5

[AJCopland]

Wow that's a nice job you've done there. Is everything fully functional how you wanted it to be now?

Andy

[adolescent]

@tnt23

Is it possible to add 5v to pin 20 of the IDE connector?  (Via jumper)  That way you can use flash disks like Trancend IDE Flash Modules.

Edit: Never mind, it looks like you are using a 44pin IDE.

[krize]

Wow very good work tnt23!

[tnt23]

AJCopland wrote:
Wow that's a nice job you've done there. Is everything fully functional how you wanted it to be now?

Andy

LCD works, as well as the very basic SIMM support. I haven't ported SD/MMC part, and haven't even tried floppy bus interface yet. Still plenty of work to do.

[tnt23]

@adolescent

Yes, it is quite possible. Altough my adapter works with standard 'missing' pin 20, it can take +5v from it (settable by adapter's jumper). A jumper or optional zero ohm SMD resistor can be added in new revision of emulator's board.

My IDE socket is of plain 40-pin IDC type.

[alexh]

I am looking forward to this project being a success.

I can see it being more of a viable commercial product than most other homebrew hardware.

I appreciate this is a new version, but if you can in the future... make it the same form factor as a floppy drive.

To be able to remove a broken drive and insert one of these in it's place would be ideal.

[timofonic]

This project looks great, any news?

Does it have a project website? There are free hosting on sourceforge, not sure if it's the more appropiated one but is a possibility.

[SKAN]

Yeah, news of any kind? Me wants it!!!

[5char]

Hey mon, any news?

 :roll:

[bloodmoney]

progress ?
 :inquisitive:

[bloodmoney]

 :bump:

[CD32Freak]

If you understand Russian, tnt23 also posts on a Russian forum. Well, I don't understand a word they are saying :lol:, but the picture on that page says enough :-D

[ddniUK]

still waiting for an update on this puppy!

[monami]

why do amiga people work like this? 2 years of one man work and nothing? couldn't someone else help speed this up?

i am probably ignorant but anyway why can't a floppy emulator be done in software? wouldn't that be an easier job?  :roll:

[rkauer]

monami wrote:

I am probably ignorant but anyway why can't a floppy emulator be done in software? wouldn't that be an easier job?  :roll:

 There is a lot of floppy software-based emulators on Aminet. But not a single one have ability to use N-DOS disks or survive a reset (except RAD:). They are useless to emulate a real floppy drive.

 Remember one thing: this floppy emulator is a drop-in replacement to the real floppy drive, giving the Amiga the ability to use ADF files directly placed in a SD/MMC card. Much better than a real floppy drive (no bad blocks, small footprint, easy transfer from peecees, etc).