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further development on the AFP

I’m about to bring a new member of my family into this world.  As a new proud parent, I’m completely unsure about what this means in terms of time, dedication, and so on.  I’m sure I’ll have less...

feasability of writing disks

While there are some other bug fixes and documentation to be done on what’s already been implemented, I started thinking about writing ADF’s to disk over the last few days. While the hardware part of it is...

problem with high density disks

I’m running into an issue with HD, high density, floppies.  The output on the scope looks just fine, but I get a consistent bad checksum on all the tracks.  I’ve tried with and without covering the HD hole...

great performance increases

Today I’ve worked on optimizing the performance of the AFP reader and have made great strides. My original track times were nearly 475ms. This was 300ms reading the actual disk, 125ms transferring, and process...

changed from rxtx to jd2xx

Okey dokey. I’ve changed from rxtx to jd2xx.  rxtx didn’t support DTR/DSR flow control, which really is an absolute must for my application.  There would have to be hardware changes that I’d be...