@mikej ... or any HW guru
Is it possible that FPGA Arcade will work together with KryoFlux for reading/writing or maybe booting real Amiga disks?
I am getting one of the FPGA boards from Mike to develop with. I am releasing SuperCard Pro (SCP), which is a flux level disk copier, emulator, and other 'things'. It is a similar form factor to the KryoFlux. It uses nearly double the resolution of the KryoFlux and has 512KB of static RAM on board for track buffering. It also has a micro-SD card slot so you can create and store raw or converted disk images. For my USB interface, I am using the FTDI FT240X USB FIFO chip which has drivers for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. I have already released preliminary information on the command structure for SCP. Besides having a USB port, it also has a serial port (up to 1Mbps) that uses the exact same command set. So, no USB interface is required. You can connect a 3.5" PC floppy drive to the SCP (power comes from the floppy drive connector, via Y-cable) and use it as a stand alone device controlled by a PIC, AVR, ARM, etc. micro - or an FPGA device like Mike's. There are commands to read the data at a flux level and convert it to Amiga MFM format, after which the data can be transferred via USB or serial.
As some of you might know, I released hardware and software disk copiers for the Amiga - in fact, that is how I got into the Amiga market before doing emulations. So, I have a LOT of experience with Paula, having actually designed a replacement ASIC for her back in the day so we could change the data rate and do flux copying without needing two drives.
