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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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floppy.c’s mfm decoder

A couple days ago, whenever I got ahold of floppy.c, I wrote a quickie code stub that utilizes floppySectorMfmDecode from floppy.c of fellow (). Note you must use the mirrors to actually download anything…. This...

Bug Katcher on Agnus

I swear I already posted about this but heck if I can find the post.  Anyways, here’s a photo of a bug katcher installed on Agnus on a Commodore Amiga 500. This gives me the ability to attach a logic analyzer to...

logic analyzer on Amiga 500 Paula chip

So I’ve attached my Intronix LA1034 to the Paula chip, the 16-bit wide data bus, and the DMA Request line. I triggered the logic analyzer on 0x4489, of course. Here’s the results: (click for a full size...