Questions about Central Point Deluxe Option board

Wouldn't it be EASIER to just design a circuit to do the job, rather than trying to trace theirs? It is NOT that complicated! The existing FDC deals with drive select, seeking to track, etc. Then the add-on board (such as option board, Apple Turnover, Catweasel, etc.) takes the pulses on the data line and stores them as bits. The rest is software. But buying an option board is less work than building one. Option board v "Deluxe" option board: I asked Brown of Central Point about programming data for the option board, for adding support of it into XenoCopy (didn't happen). He asked me about reading Mac 400k/800K disk with it. I told him, that until I studied it (and hopefully got tech data from him), that I couldn't be sure, but that I didn't think that the option board could handle a wide enough range of data transfer rates. That was then, apparently, the primary design goal of the "deluxe". There are a few websites with some info on the board; there might even be one with the amount of programming info that they would let developers have. -- Fred Cisin cisin(a)xenosoft.com XenoSoft http://www.xenosoft.com PO Box 1236 (510) 558-9366 Berkeley, CA 94701-1236 On Sat, 29 Jun 2002, Philip Pemberton wrote: