wongck wrote:I would get one but am waiting for a better deal.
euh lol... it costs ~20euros. do you want it for 1 euros ?
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wongck wrote:I would get one but am waiting for a better deal.
Jeff_HxC2001 wrote:A question to the Atari forum community: How much can/would you spent for a SDcard floppy emulator ? 30euros,40euros,50euros,60euros,80euros, 100euros or more ?
Jeff_HxC2001 wrote:wongck wrote:I would get one but am waiting for a better deal.
euh lol... it costs ~20euros. do you want it for 1 euros ?
shinmai wrote:I own three working STs, and currently have no means of transferring data to them, as all of the floppy drives are busted, and even if they weren't I have no access to 720k discs or even a floppy drive. When my MegaFile finally completely died last fall, I've had to give up tinkering with my machines alltogether until I can find a device like this to breathe some new life into them. I'm not skilled enough in electronic work to actually complete a project like this, and getting someone to do a single unit would probably prove very costly.
mikro wrote:To make things a little bit interesting, I and "some" other developerare seriously considering ST/Falcon counterpart to this: http://raster.infos.cz/atari/hw/sdrive/sdriveen.htm
The initial idea is to support all ST and Amiga formats, i.e. it should be usable on both machines. Prize as always -- lower than your knees
But it will take some (10 months at least) time, though.
wongck wrote:Mikro & Jeff_Hx2001, it would be great if these are specific to Atari and does the Atari non-PC tracks/sectors. Those generic ones out there will certainly works with standard PC tracks/sector only.
Jeff_HxC2001 wrote:Indeed the HxC Floppy Emulator supports specific Atari formats (since 2006). Look the supported computers/ file images here:
http://jeanfrancoisdelnero.free.fr/flop ... SSUPPORTED
wongck wrote:Cool, so how does it work?![]()
wongck wrote:Can you write into the .ST file as well?
wongck wrote:Do I need a joystick to choose which file I need?
wongck wrote:How to define the boot disk?
Jeff_HxC2001 wrote:Indeed the HxC Floppy Emulator supports specific Atari formats (since 2006). Look the supported computers/ file images here:
http://jeanfrancoisdelnero.free.fr/flop ... SSUPPORTED
mikro wrote:Jeff_HxC2001 wrote:Indeed the HxC Floppy Emulator supports specific Atari formats (since 2006). Look the supported computers/ file images here:
http://hxc2001.free.fr/floppy_drive_emu ... SSUPPORTED
Trouble with HxC is the fact you can't use your ST / MSA / ADF / whatever directly. You must preconvert them on PC and then store to USB / SD card. Our solution will require no such step, you can open your SD/MMC card in Windows, copy ST / MSA / ADF / ... files there and our device will recognize them. That's the reason why we're going to build it in the first place -- we simply don't like more hassle than needed
So to avoid these problems i choose to make an file format that fit very well the floppy emulator hardware. By this way the firmware are very easy to code.
MiggyMog wrote:So to avoid these problems i choose to make an file format that fit very well the floppy emulator hardware. By this way the firmware are very easy to code.
It seems sensible enough to have a format that exactly mimics the data stored on the surface of the disk & how it is accessed including the interleave stuff where applicable. The floppy drives that are used in most computers are mostly the same & it's just the drive controller which is different (Annoyingly with an ST/PC as you can't read other disk formats) so it makes sense to have a wrapper type format which does the job of all of these formats at the floppy disk hardware level instead of having variants like STT/STX/STT/DSK/MSA etc. Does for For floppy disks what SNDH does for music. Have you provided details of the file format?
mikro wrote:for me, the most important thing is to be able to download stuff from net, store it on SD card and put into my device.
So to sum it up, I'm happy we live in the world of choices
wongck wrote:There in the market are version that use 1 USB stick to simulate 99 disk.
That one cost more than USD$100.
I am waiting for that model.
mikro wrote:So to sum it up, I'm happy we live in the world of choices
shinmai wrote:wongck wrote:There in the market are version that use 1 USB stick to simulate 99 disk.
That one cost more than USD$100.
I am waiting for that model.
Would that be something like this?
I actually think I might have one of those cheap ones that Jeff_HxC2001 linked to, in one of my old keyboards.. At least it looks very similar. If I could manage to format a usb-stick to 80 tracks and 9 sectors, would that work on my ST? Or would it need hardware modifications (as I said I'm really not cut out to do something like that on my own)... (to clarify, I realize the usb-stick alone wouldn't work, but would a drive similar to the one linked by Jeff WITH aformentioned USB-thumbdrive work as a way of transferring data from my PC to an ST?)
Jeff_HxC2001 wrote:This is the same hardware than the 20e one. i am pretty sure that this will work with an Atari ST.
But if you can, ask the documentation to see if you can select the good "Drive select" with jumpers or something else.
I have read somewhere that these drives use a software to get/set files images on the usb stick.
shinmai wrote:wongck wrote:There in the market are version that use 1 USB stick to simulate 99 disk.
That one cost more than USD$100.
I am waiting for that model.
Would that be something like this?
shinmai wrote:I actually think I might have one of those cheap ones that Jeff_HxC2001 linked to, in one of my old keyboards.. At least it looks very similar. If I could manage to format a usb-stick to 80 tracks and 9 sectors, would that work on my ST? Or would it need hardware modifications (as I said I'm really not cut out to do something like that on my own)... (to clarify, I realize the usb-stick alone wouldn't work, but would a drive similar to the one linked by Jeff WITH aformentioned USB-thumbdrive work as a way of transferring data from my PC to an ST?)
shinmai wrote:It's also missing the jumper pins for the drive ID, but the connectors are there, so I'm going to try and get it to work by desoldering the connection on ds1 and connecting ds0. That's about the limit of my know-how when electronics are concerned, so I hope that'll get it working
petersieg wrote:So.. now you can count 20 more white hxc usb units that have been made on the list for 2009..
Since there is still interest in more.. I have decided to make another 20 unit batch.. 11 are already allocated..
Peter
petersieg wrote:11 are already allocated..
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