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Re: Many File Formats: do they bother you?

On 07/12/2012 04:01 PM, Alex Freed wrote:

On 7/12/2012 11:44 AM, Marc S Ressl wrote:


I also have a proposal for somebody with electronics knowledge. A USB
adapter that connects to a Disk II drive and reads/writes from a PC. If I am
not mistaken this already exists, but now the catch. It lets you produce
accurate disk images in FDI format. Anybody interested?



I was thinking about it. Not too hard - there is an example already. The not
quite finished "Cyclone20" project that uses an ARM7 based production board
(less than $100) to read/write very accurate raw data from 800 MB Amiga disks.
There is the very-much-finished (at least in terms of hardware) Kryoflux. Their entire goal is to create 100% accurate imaging that can recreate the original diskette to the last detail. They are there for Amiga and not far behind for C64. Some read capability currently exists for Apple (even for 800k diskettes - and in a standard PC 1.44M drive no less!).