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inital results on error correction

While I have yet to actually implement the full-scale error correction as I want to, I did some manual tests today. I basically took a track that I was erroring out on, and swapped in 1-bit away values for the bad bytes.  In some cases, it appeared...

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added byte-sync to my transfer routine

Well, after much thought, pondering, and discussion with David, I finally implemented a working byte-sync routine to my SX software. I don’t have it fully working with the PC side software yet, because this...

PCBs have arrived!

Just in time for Christmas, the PCBs have arrived from China.  I used Seeed Studio (Fusion PCB Service) and they look pretty good.  Here’s the first look at them. I’m just about to solder one up, so wish me...

thinking about cross-platform support

To make this accessible to everyone, I’d really like to add support for more than just Windows.  I thought that Java would be my ticket to freedom here, but that is turning sour real fast. From what I’m able...

Yay! Initial shots from the VSC!

So I got everything hooked up tonight, and the good news is that I have definitely made some progress! It appears to work, although the video is currently scrolling with multiple video problems, but I definitely have...

SX code

Ok so I’m using SX/B, which is BASIC for the SX. Even if you’ve never touched SX/B, it reads very easily, anyone who knows the PIC or other mcu should understand….. Here’s the logic behind the...

first .adf written

Well, I’ve written my first .adf tonight! I threw together a quick routine on the PC side to query the SX for both sides and all the tracks. It generated a 901,120 byte .ADF file of a disk I had called...