Die eierlegende Wollmilchsau "petSD+ " Ein #Floppyemulator für #commodore #C64 #VC20 #PET :-) #retrocomputing #oldcomputers #berlinCreators
#floppyemulator
The floppy emulator HxC by Jean-Francois Del Nero completely replaces the floppy drive (of an Amiga) with an electronic device.
A new version of the HxC floppy emulator software has now been released.
HxCFloppyEmulator v2,16,10,1 released
First online/browser experimental version : https://hxc2001.com/hxcfesw/
And many more new features and fixes !
Please have a look to the release notes for the details !
https://github.com/jfdelnero/HxCFloppyEmulator/releases/tag/HxCFloppyEmulator_V2_16_10_1
https://hxc2001.com/download/floppy_drive_emulator/HxCFloppyEmulator_soft.zip
So if anyone wounders how I test @OS1337 without a physical 3,5" FDD ( or a "#FloppyEmulator" hooked up to a system ) I use #Ventoy, which is basically a fancy #ISOLINUX bootloader where one can dump #IMG, #ISO and #VHD onto an #exFAT partition and it'll just boot that!
- whilst it doesn't emulate a drive on low-level like those fancy #IODD enclosures, it gets the job done...
@robdaemon even the 34-pin cable is just a 26-pin with extra bits to do more than 1 floppy on one ribbon [it works like a primitive bus]...
And with #FlashFloppy you should be able to make that #GOTEK #FloppyEmulator just work versatile...
May I present to you:
The most #cursed #FrontPanel Configuration I did to this day:
It has everything I could get my hands on to this day.
Not shown are the internal 3,5" 1440kB #FDD i had in it earlier, but swapped it for the #FloppyEmulator cuz it was annoying that #Linux constantly checked if a #Floppy was in the drive.
Ultimately, what got me on the right path for Centurion floppy emulator was realizing that the Kryoflux images I was looking at would reflect some unknown amount of write postcomp by the drive and media. By writing tools to inject additional write precomp into the Kryoflux image, I was able to figure out that ~350ns of total write precomp was enough to confuse FlashFloppy. Inserting a 2nd order PLL with a natural loop frequency around 715kHz was plenty to recover a stable enough clock to decode MFM correctly.
Apanhado de Notícias Kláxicas para o feriado
https://retropolis.com.br/2023/10/12/apanhado-de-noticias-klaxicas/
#MundoRetro #6502 #AmstradCpc #AmstradNC200 #CPU #disassembly #elite #Emuladores #Espanha #famicom #FloppyEmulator #Jogos #KlaxMSX #Livros #MSDOS #MSX1 #Nintendo #RetroVirtualMachine #SegaMasterSystem #SegaSG1000 #symbos #Terminais #ZXSpectrum
Restored Amiga 500 is Blue – and Glows in the Dark https://hackaday.com/2023/07/21/restored-amiga-500-is-blue-and-glows-in-the-dark/ #Retrocomputing #floppyemulator #casemodding #spraypaint #Amiga500 #gotek
I got a little too obsessed a while back so I bought one of these: https://lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=45
From the same guy that made the #UltraSatan:
https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/ultra-satan-drive
Arduino Nano Floppy Emulator For When Your Disk Is Not Accessible
Among the plethora of obsolete removable media there are some which are lamented, but it can be difficult to find those who regret the passing of the floppy disk. These flexible magnetic disks in hard plastic covers were a staple of computing until some time in the early 2000s, and their drives could be found by the crateload in any spares box. But what about today, when there's a need for a real floppy drive and none is to be found? Enter [Acemi Elektronikci], with an Arduino Nano based floppy emulator, that plugs into the floppy port of a PC old enough to have one, and allows the easy use of virtual floppy disks.
Aside from the Nano it has an SD card and associated level shifter, and an SSD1306 i2c screen. Most of the Arduino's lines drive the floppy interface, so the five-button control comes to a single ADC pin via a resistor ladder. He freely admits that it's not a perfect cycle-exact emulator of original hardware and there may be machines or even operating systems that complain when faced with it, but for all that it is a useful tool. One of the machines that may have issues is the Amiga, but fortunately there's a fix for that with a Raspberry Pi.
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