KryoFlux - imaging of vintage floppy disks via USB

On 11/2/2011 5:24 PM, Kieron Wilkinson wrote: (Kieron replying to someone else) Hi. I find it interesting what different (fairly independently developed) designs have in common for this type of job of reading floppies. ie, How did other smarter-than-me people accomplish the same task? Was my solution better or worse? I built an open source(java client software) and open hardware (HDL released) solution for reading amiga floppy disks, and it was(is?) a whole lot of fun developing it. Learning both the amiga-specific stuff and the technology stuff. My blog is at http://techtravels.org/amiga/amigablog/ which is ATM being reworked(but completely online and available), again. I'm starting to add some generic FPGA notes, examples, etc. I played with a few different microcontroller designs (using a 50mhz Parallax SX, which was really well suited to the task) and then eventually a Xilinx FPGA approach. When I saw your links above, they reminded me of my analysis of my amiga floppy data on my posts here http://techtravels.org/?p=362 and http://techtravels.org/?p=263 These are obviously generated outside of my client software, but could be integrated with a little work. Based on the number of unique non-search-engine hits my blog has taken over the years, there is a fair number of people who dabble in this stuff. I get email every few months about a new project from someone working on the task. Your screen shots look pretty sweet. Thanks Keith