El HxC Floppy Emulator te permite reemplazar diferentes tipos de disquetera y usar una tarjeta SD en lugar de disquetes.
La versión REV C White tiene un display LCD blanco y 3 botones que te permiten selecionar y manejar tus discos desde aquí. Es adecuada para todos los ordenadores con controladora de disquetes y también con otros dispositivos compatibles. Implementa además el cómodo software de visualización en pantalla "On Screen Display" para Amiga, Amstrad CPC, y Atari ST.
El emulador es usado actualmente con Amiga, Atari, CPC, Spectrum, MSX, ordenadores PC, diferentes teclados y samplers, máquinas CNC, y diverso instrumental científico.
La lista completa de ordenadores / instrumentos que soporta se encuentran en la página web del proyecto:
http://hxc2001.free.fr/floppy_drive_emulator/index.html
Para preguntas y soporte :
http://torlus.com/floppy/forum/
Especificaciones técnicas:
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 button only ( switch disk, pressed whilst booting - firmware upgrade).
• 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 256/512/1024Bytes sector write supported.
• Write support available on Amiga computers
• You may read about upgrading REV B to REV C
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)
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.