14 Jan
2014
14 Jan
'14
5:27 p.m.
On 1/13/2014 18:05 Jason Scott wrote:
The FC5025 is a nice general (and available) solution
for many
situations - it should be one of multiple choices that are as easy
to use and work with as the rest. The creator is relatively quiet,
and it takes effort to even find out who makes it besides "Device
Side Data". (Adam Goldman).
I've written several "drivers" for a pile of different disk formats -
several CP/Ms, CTOS/BTOS, and a few others plus adapted his PCDOS driver
to work with 160, 180, and 320K disks. I have even used it successfully
with 3.5" and 8" drives - though it's not advertised as supported. I've
fed all of my additions back to Adam, but he doesn't promise an update
that includes them soon.
On the Catweasel front, I have been working to consolidate the various
stand-alone disk interpreters, including Karsten Scheibler's cwtool
code, combining them with a project that is a Catweasel driver for OSX:
http://sourceforge.net/p/catweasel-osx/wiki/Home/
If anyone knows of other CW interpreters not on my list, please get in
touch here or on SourceForge.
This goes back to the "tribal" comment made earlier - it might just be
that the information is too scattered about. It has to be grouped
together. And having a platform to coalesce around helps. Obviously I
can't decide between the FC5025 and the Catweasel, but FC5025 has the
edge because it's actually still available and Adam has been extremely
helpful to me when approached. It might help that I supply him with
code, too. :-)