I hate leaving projects for awhile. Any more than a few days, and you lose the focus, you lose the insight, and remembering exactly where you left off can be a pain in the butt. This time, I’ve come back to a...
Archive - 2006
progress on windows side
I put some time into the windows program that makes this whole thing tick tonight. When I first started this project, I started with Marco’s afr.c, and pared it down to the bare necessities. Then, I modified...
added version control and another command
I’ve really wanted version control for a long time. The ability to go back and undo diverse changes across sessions is valuable. I also feel a little safer and don’t mind doing semi-destructive edits...
vacation reading
While I’m on vacation this week, I’m reading a book about making your own circuit boards using Cadsoft’s Eagle. Eagle is a schematic capture and board layout program that seems pretty popular and...
semester is over
Welp, my spring semester is over, so I’ll have more time to dedicate to the project. A couple quotes I like on Perseverance: It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer...
added commands
So I’ve added commands to support forward/backward stepping and upper and lower sides. R for Read D for Dump F/B for stepping either Forward or Backward U/L for selecting upper or lower side. I’ve tested...
March 21st Status
Well, here’s where I’m at: The external amiga floppy drive is now hooked directly to my SX microcontroller. The code within the microcontroller waits for a command. If it get’s a “B”...
Good news. Floppy now under SX control
OK, so I finally bit the bullet and have the floppy drive under direct SX control. I have my amiga power supply, which is a modified PC supply with harddrive leads powering the drive directly with +12v and +5v. I also...
out of the country!
I just left Amsterdam, and now am spending some time in Brussels.
I have some preliminary photos up in the gallery.
Floppy project is still on my mind!
