9 Mar
2005
9 Mar
'05
1:34 p.m.
From: "Jim Leonard" <trixter at
oldskool.org>
---snip---
I should note that, since FDI images are 100% exact
bitwise dumps, they aren't
exactly easy to read (they're not nice clean formatted-track-and-sector images)
so getting them translated back to an actual floppy diskette is not currently
possible (since nobody has written the software to do so yet).
---snip---
It is not a matter of software. It is a matter of hardware. Unless
someone can comes up with a trick, the controller won't do it.
Dwight
9 Mar
9 Mar
2 p.m.
From: "Dwight K. Elvey" <dwight.elvey at amd.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 12:34 PM
aren't
You might look at:
http://www.rothfus.com/SVD/
It uses a PIC. It only has 256K of RAM right now but he is upgrading it to
1mb.
I'm looking into using an eZ80 and a Flash card. By using track buffering
it is possible to emulate almost anything with very little RAM.
Randy
From: "Jim
Leonard" <trixter at oldskool.org>
---snip---
>I should note that, since FDI images are 100% exact bitwise dumps, they
>exactly easy to read (they're not nice clean
formatted-track-and-sector
images)
>so getting them translated back to an actual
floppy diskette is not
currently
possible (since
nobody has written the software to do so yet).
---snip---
It is not a matter of software. It is a matter of hardware. Unless
someone can comes up with a trick, the controller won't do it.
Dwight 
7:16 p.m.
Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
I was referring to the parallel-port-cable solution, not the controller (which,
I agree, clearly can't do it).
--
Jim Leonard (trixter at oldskool.org) http://www.oldskool.org/
Want to help an ambitious games project? http://www.mobygames.com/
Or check out some trippy MindCandy at http://www.mindcandydvd.com/
I should note
that, since FDI images are 100% exact bitwise dumps, they aren't
exactly easy to read (they're not nice clean formatted-track-and-sector images)
so getting them translated back to an actual floppy diskette is not currently
possible (since nobody has written the software to do so yet).
It is not a matter of software. It is a matter of hardware. Unless
someone can comes up with a trick, the controller won't do it.
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