17 Jun
2010
17 Jun
'10
1:19 p.m.
Keith wrote on 17/06/2010 02:44:16:
I've tried several times to get involved. I'm
an old amiga guy, working
on similar floppy projects, and my emails to them have basically been
ignored. I'm frustrated with them too. They tell us about how great
the stuff they've made is --- and then don't let us download (heck, even
Hi Keith, I'm from SPS.
I am terribly sorry if we missed your email. We started using a response system from
mid-2006, and since you don't appear to be in there, I can only assume you emailed us
before that? I personally used to answer most of the emails before then, so the fault lies
with me. Before late 2009 we didn't had any intention of doing a device ourselves, so
we would definitely been very interested to hear from you. Can you remember when it was
you emailed us?
I think it is great all these floppy reading projects are sprouting up. We have been
looking at finding one for 10 years, and now there are many in progress. This is great!
With this in mind, I'm going to try and answer some of the things raised here.
Hopefully we can all stay on good terms. :)
a binary) of the effort. And then they say they are
"preserving
software", but it's completely inaccessible to the public. (even though
you can download on the pirate networks)
Unfortunately we just can't provide disk images. It's illegal, and some of us work
in the games industry. What we can do, is provide the people that have sent images of
their original games with a "verified" version that can be played in emulators,
or on the real machines with HxC. The images you see floating about are the ones that
contributors have passed on. Fortunately, most images are available this way. We also
provide images to various games sites that have permission from the copyright holders.
I remain completely unimpressed until I see first hand
exactly what
they've "accomplished."
That is fair enough. However, if you are interested, KryoFlux is available right now, and
you can download the software here: http://softpres.org/news:2010-03-16. ATM, you need to
buy a development board, and getting the manufacturing sorted out has been slow (and
expensive!), but it is coming along nicely now. I don't recommend anyone build their
own board from our open specification at the moment, because the design has changed a bit
since then, and these changes are still being tested.
We already have open hardware. We did also say we would provide source code when we are
out of beta, which will hopefully coincide with having hardware available to buy. If we
don't, feel free to complain. :)
Also see my next post in reply to Phil.
Kieron