That's great, thanks! I'll try that with my Trinity SD card later...
The main thing I'm interested in, is being able to create stuff in Sim
Coupe on my laptop, and just get it onto the real SAM for testing with
ease. So if it's possible through the Atom emulation and/or SAMdisk,
that'll do
Hi Warren,
The enclosure would still only work if the laptop motherboard had a regular
floppy controller chip, and I'd be surprised if any have included one in the
last 5 years. The actual floppy drives themselves are pretty dumb, so it's all
about what you've got them connected to. There are
a CF card between SAM and SimCoupe (or indeed a
Trinity and SD card). It gives a centralised store of all your
work, and avoids the reliability issues with floppy disks – just be
sure to back it up periodically in case you lose it!
Si
On 5 Apr 2011, at 12:19, war...@wdlee.co.uk wrote:
Just as a
Thanks for the fast reply! :-)
I suppose in theory, an internal-type drive in an enclosure would be
plausible, but by the time you get to that, and the rarity probably of
even enclosures for something like that and the added drivers, it
defeats the purpose. Oh well... Worth finding out! ;-)
data.
Nowadays it's probably easiest to use an Atom Lite interface on the SAM side
and share a CF card between SAM and SimCoupe (or indeed a Trinity and SD card).
It gives a centralised store of all your work, and avoids the reliability
issues with floppy disks – just be sure to back it up perio
The USB Floppys have a extremly cut down controller which is missing ability
for low level access. So the answer is no. My Acer TM312T has a external
parallel port Disc drive, and it can read and write Coupé Discs, only
because the BIOS. It would be possible to make a USB Floppy which can use
SAM d
Just as a side issue, with regards to Sim Coupe... (sorry for the
quick change of topic!)
This is probably a daft question, as I think I've read about the issue
elsewhere, so forgive me... but is there no way to read/write to
external USB floppy drives? Just thinking of my own case, and oth
