Phwoarrr!!!!! :lust:

It  is very smart device, designed by Jean-François DEL NERO. It allows you  to emulate any 34 pins floppy disk drive. The SDCard HxC Floppy  Emulator can replace different kind of floppy disk drive and allows you  use SDCard media instead of floppy disk. This emulator is actually used  on Amiga, Atari, CPC, PC computers, different keyboards and samplers,  CNC machine tool, and scientist instruments.

 The full list of supported host computer/instruments are on the project website:
http://hxc2001.free.fr/floppy_drive_emulator/index.html#FILESSUPPORTED

  For questions and new host support request :
http://torlus.com/floppy/forum/
 
 Technical details :
 
Floppy interface:
 

• HE10 34 pins floppy connector :
  
• Shugart compatible mode supported.
  
• PC compatible mode supported.
  
• Tested on PC, Atari ST, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Thomson, MSX, ZX Spectrum series computers.
  
• Two floppy disk drives emulation
  

Power supply:
 

• 5V +/- 10% standard power floppy connector input.
  

User Interface:
 

• 3 LEDs ("Power LED","Floppy access LED"," SDCard access LED ").
  
• 3 buttons ("Next","Select/Eject","Previous").
  
• 1 audio transducer.
  
• 2*16 chars Alphanumerical LCD (LCD and buttons can be put on an external front panel)
  
• On screen display software for Atari ST, Amstrad CPC and Amiga Computers  
  

SDCard support:
 

• SD Card up to 2GB.
  
• SDHC Card supported up to 32GB.
  
• (10Mhz SPI bus mode. Average byterate: ~500KB/s)
  

SDCard Filesystem
 

• FAT32 supported. Subdirectory and long name file supported.
  

List of supported file images type:
 

• ST, MSA, ADF, ADZ, DMZ, CPC DSK (standard and extended)
  
• CopyQM DSK, Oric DSK, IMG, SMC,MSX DSK, IMD, Zx Spectrum DSK, BetaDisk TRD,
  
• BetaDisk SCL, Thomson TO8D SAP, Thomson TO8D FD, PC88 D88, x68000 HDM (beta), x68000 XDF (beta), custom raw floppy geometry…
  
• An AmigaDOS or FAT12 floppy disk image can also be generated from spares files.
  

Read / Write support:
 

• Track mode based floppy emulator (Full track pre-encoded in the HFE image file)
  
• Read support: Most of existing formats (FM/MFM/Amiga track...) supported.
  
• Custom tracks supported.
  
• Write support: ISO MFM 256/512/1024Bytes sector write supported.
  
• Write support available on Amiga computers  
  

Floppy bitrate supported:
 

• 250/300Kbits/s (DD floppies)
  
• 500Kbits/s (HD floppies)
  
• (others bitrates possible)
  

Note  : Variable bitrate not supported. So protected floppy disk image (IPF  and STX file format) file support will be only partial ! If you look for  a device supporting IPF / STX please a have a look to the USB HxC  Floppy Emulator device)

http://lotharek.pl/4/product/info/3

http://hxc2001.free.fr/floppy_drive_emulator/index.html#SDCARDFloppyemulator

I don't have this, but I do have his other device which allows you to load up ADF images from your PC using a USB device:

http://lotharek.pl/4/product/info/4

Which I'm not a huge fan of. At first it worked, then I put it in storage, took it out to use again, and could only get it to work with 1 image, then it stopped all together claiming that all my images were corrupt.

I sent it back, he said it was fine and sent me another one and even paid shipping back.

The new one works, but I still find ADF images that it claims are corrupt, but work fine with UAE, RAD:, and so forth. So on that note I will say his customer support was great, but the device seems touchy.

I asked him why it would see ADF files as being corrupt that seem to work with everything else, but he never offered a theory.

Hopefully this SD device is less touchy.

Have had one these for over a month, maybe two. Fantastic little device, been playing afew classics without the fear of my floppy drive or disks failing

Can it handle original (copy protected) floppy images ie: not ADF but a perfect copy of an original game that's not in either Amiga Dos format or of the plain trackdisk type...

Love the sounds that it makes, kinda sounds like a floppy but not. Nice little touch

Hmm, at the moment you have to convert the adf files to a format that the emulator can read. Which is the software that you run on your PC. Will have a read on their forums might be a solution for you.

Had a quick browse and I need to update my firmware etc lol

Thanks for all the info...

I can get access to my sisters or nephews PC easily (as I don't think I can run the software on this iMAC), I'll need to read up on it though first, to see if it is going to be easy to use, or I think I'll have a go at building my own one again...

Hi,

In fact you can build a command line version for Linux and MacOsX from the sources :

http://hxc2001.free.fr/floppy_drive_emulator/HxC_Floppy_Emulator_soft_src.zip

But i know that i should make an graphical Linux & Mac version (work in progress ;-) )

Jeff

Thanks!

Sounds like this device works better than what I got. I hear not complaints. So now I'm thinking about selling what I got and upgrading.

If i understand you are talking about the usb version?

If yes try to get the last software version, check the "Sync lost" counter into the status window. If this value increase, try to increase the "USB packet size".