On Feb 5, 9:40 pm, Steven Hirsch <snhir...@gmail.com> wrote:Has anyone seen this? http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=40959 Basically it's a universal floppy-disk decoder/writer hosted on an Atmel prototype board. Fascinating (to me, anyway) thread on development and bringup. Just waiting for an Apple 2 personality!
Good timing. Just when I was thinking of using the AVR for a somewhat similar purpose :)
This project is very interesting. It should be trivial to use it for reading Apple disks, both 5.25" and 3.5" with small changes to the existing software. If it captures *all* the flux changes with good resolution, it's a "simple matter of software" to use it for capturing
data from floppies. At the same time there are enough pins left to interface to a Disk ][ card and emulate an Apple floppy. Here is how I see it. You connect a standard disk drive and capture raw data via USB to a PC. A PC program analyzes the data and stores in someformat (TBD) on an SD card on the same board. USB is disconnected, another 20 pin ribbon cable plugged into a Disk ][ card and a floppy is
emulated. -Alex.