On 24 May 2017 08:28:42 -0700 Chuck Guzis via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote:
Mine are for specific-purpose applications, so they're not likely to be of use to anyone else. Note that I'm not interested in archiving disks, but rather getting at their content and saving that. But golly, it isn't that difficult--most MCUs have several timers, and a "capture" facility so reading should be easy. Writing is again, mostly feeding a PWM output to the drive. The floppy interface itself is very much brain-dead.
This is indeed very easy to implement, I did it in less than a day, including some doc: https://fjkraan.home.xs4all.nl/digaud/arduino/FDDExer/.
This isn't news--the HxC emulator basically does the work and runs on an STM32F1 platform--which is weak tea compared to the ARM CPUs currently available.
I'm not sure this will work on my Teensy, but it will be fun to try. Or else I could upgrade.
My .02 cents. Chuck
Fred Jan
