[vcf-midatlantic] hard drive and floppy disk emulator

[Alan Hightower]

That would be difficult. It's a closed source commercial project. He
doesn't provide source or a partitioned net-list. So integrating
anything else with his emulation code on the FPGA is nigh impossible. 

That being said, it seems to me writing a PCM recorder/player at some
harmonic of 5 (MFM), 7.5 (RLL), or 20 (ESDI) MHz should be
straight-forward. 

-Alan 

On 2016-06-03 11:10, Joseph Oprysko via vcf-midatlantic wrote: 

> I agree. Although since its FPGA based, one could download additional cores
> and have it be a hardware based emulator for vintage systems as well.
> 
> On Friday, June 3, 2016, Dave Wade via vcf-midatlantic <
> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
> 
> Interesting. The website for the product is http://www.drem.info [1]
> 
> Although the one thing I would have to question is that it says it's the "only" MFM/RLL hard drive emulator, which is not accurate.
> 
> I think it's the only combined unit that does both in one module....
> .... but it looks like it will only do one at once, and so its very
> expensive for floppy use...
> 
> On Wednesday, June 1, 2016, Rolf Levenbach via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-
> midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org <javascript:;>> wrote:
> 
> A MFM & RLL hard drive and floppy disk emulator on eBay:
> 
> http://www.ebay.ca/itm/-/301968006996 [2]
> 
> Rolf

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Links:
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[1] http://www.drem.info
[2] http://www.ebay.ca/itm/-/301968006996