The SDCard HxC Floppy Emulator can replace different kind of floppy disk drive and allows you use SDCard media instead of floppy disk. This emulator is actually used on Amiga, Atari, CPC, Spectrum, MSX, PC computers, different keyboards and samplers, CNC machine tool, and scientist instruments.
The HxC Slim black case version fits in a slim 3,5" bay (includes front and chasis) for industrial/home usage. On Screen Display Software for Atari ST, Amstrad CPC and Amiga Computers. For the rest of computers/harware on board button can be used to switch disk images.
You can check the case dimensions here.
The full list of supported host computer/instruments are on the project website:
http://hxc2001.free.fr/floppy_drive_emulator/index.html
For questions and new host support request :
http://torlus.com/floppy/forum/
Technical details:
Floppy interface:
• HE10 34 pins floppy connector :
• Shugart compatible mode supported.
• PC compatible mode supported.
• Tested on PC, Atari ST, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Thomson, MSX, ZX Spectrum series computers.
• Two floppy disk drives emulation
Power supply:
• 5V +/- 10% standard power floppy connector input.
User Interface:
• 1 LED - SDCard access LED .
• 1 button MULTIFUNCTIONAL
• 1 audio transducer.
• On screen display software for Atari ST, Amstrad CPC and Amiga Computers
SDCard support:
• SD Card up to 2GB.
• SDHC Card supported up to 32GB.
• (10Mhz SPI bus mode. Average byterate: ~500KB/s)
SDCard Filesystem
• FAT32 supported. Subdirectory and long name file supported.
List of supported file images type:
• ST, MSA, ADF, ADZ, DMZ, CPC DSK (standard and extended)
• CopyQM DSK, Oric DSK, IMG, SMC,MSX DSK, IMD, Zx Spectrum DSK, BetaDisk TRD,
• BetaDisk SCL, Thomson TO8D SAP, Thomson TO8D FD, PC88 D88, x68000 HDM (beta), x68000 XDF (beta), • custom raw floppy geometry…
• An AmigaDOS or FAT12 floppy disk image can also be generated from spares files.
Read / Write support:
• Track mode based floppy emulator (Full track pre-encoded in the HFE image file)
• Read support: Most of existing formats (FM/MFM/Amiga track...) supported.
• Custom tracks supported.
• Write support:ISO MFM/DD 256/512/1024Bytes sector write supported.
• Write support: ISO FM /SD 128/256/512/1024Bytes sector write supported.
• Amiga Write support (Since the Rev.C Hardware)
• E-mu (Emulator I / II /SP1200) Write support (Since the Rev.C Hardware)
Floppy bitrate supported:
• 250/300Kbits/s (DD floppies)
• 500Kbits/s (HD floppies)
• (others bitrates possible)
Note : Variable bitrate not supported. So protected floppy disk image (IPF and STX file format) file support will be only partial ! If you look for a device supporting IPF / STX please a have a look to the USB HxC Floppy Emulator device)
Note2 : SD CARD NOT INCLUDED (available as option)
Important Note:
The SD HxC Floppy Emulator is tested with a lot of different models of SD Cards, and should works properly with all SD Cards present on the market. Unfortunately there are lots of fake/bad flash medias (SD Cards/CF Cards/USB keys...) on the market. So we recommend you to care about the SD Card selection and also choose a good provider.