While I shouldn’t be surprised, my SX hardware issue is related to double one’s, where the SX sees transitions back to back, and writes back to back 1’s into memory. This is assuming there aren’t...
Archive - January 2007
even first or odd?
Despite having a couple different official sources, both AFR.c and floppy.c from the fellow amiga emulator says that the even bits come before the odd bits. This is true in the sector header decoding as well as in the...
MFMSanityCheck
While I’m hesitant to post this at all, this is a quick and dirty application I threw together, and I do mean threw, that will check for valid MFM bytes. See the previous post for the link to the actual bytes. It...
example files
I wanted to put up some example files. Note that a preceding “D” for dump and two delimiting 0xFF’s might exist in these files. Also an ending 0xFF 0xFF might exist. So two bad files below have exactly...
recent status
Well, I’ve put a decent number of hours in on the project over the last couple weeks. I’ve mostly been “spinning my wheels” because I haven’t made much progress, but I think I’ve...