On 04/08/2018 09:17 PM, Jeffrey Brace wrote:
On Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 5:17 PM, Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org <mailto:vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org>> wrote:
I'm currently planning on various restorations of my older systems. Unfortunately I've got a limited number of working drives. I'd like to know your experiences with the floppy emulators that are available. I've seen the HxC, the Gotek and the clones, though I think the Gotek is also a clone. I haven't purchased anything and I'm trying to understand these things better before I start buying anything.
It's not clear to me if you are looking for floppy disk emulators for a particular micro or all of them.
Well to start off with just the CoCo and OS9. that should cover the CoCo, Sardis and PT68/K2 as they all run OS9. So the same format. But later I'll be working with other systems such as the ATR8000 and DOS. From everything I've read DOS should be the least troublesome. I don't plan on working on more than 1 system at a time. I think I have about 4 or 5 drives (maybe a few more 3 1/2"). I may also have a MAC drive but I have no need of it.
Would you like to know about the ones available for the C64?
I haven't come across one yet but I also haven't been looking. I think there is a C64 drive emulator (using a Raspberry Pi). The Atari 800 has something similar. -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies