3 Nov
2011
3 Nov
'11
12:46 a.m.
On 3 Nov 2011, at 01:19, Keith Monahan wrote:
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?
No idea. We developed KryoFlux because we had very specific needs, in a device we could
offer cheaply and produced in quantity. Somebody else proved what we wanted could be done
(Richard Alpin of Cyclone fame) but got way laid by real life, and so we ran with our own
version based on his ideas (same basic hardware, different software).
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 was aware of your blog. Good work. I think we have had this conversation before
actually...
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.
Our visualisations were mainly based on ideas from "Mr. Floppy" - the GUI for
the Cyclone20 project. I think there are YouTube videos of that flying about, and early
versions has a histogram and scatter plot as the current KryoFlux UI does. They were also
taken from the SPS analyser. I do remember your scatter plot, so perhaps it also had had
some influence. If so, thanks :-)
Your screen shots look pretty sweet.
Thanks!
Kieron