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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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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...

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...

motor speed variation tests

I collected roughly 1,000 index pulses from the Sony MPF920-E with one common floppy inserted. The motor speed variation was very very small.  I am impressed as to the accuracy. Across 967 index pulses, all were within...

Getting closer….

So a few versions later, trying some different failed attempts, I am finally starting to get a little closer.  Here’s the best video I’ve got so far, but my image is still scrolling. If I can fix the...