This morning I added MFM decoding, header and data checksumming and checking to the java client. I was somewhat worried about doing the MFM decoding, but it was all worry for nothing. Once you wrap your head around how...
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java and portability
While I have some experience with Java, I’ve never tried to run my stuff cross-platform. Never a real need. While most of the Java stuff has yet to be written, I took some basic serial code and GUI stuff, and...
Marco Veneri
I had the great pleasure of trading emails with Marco Veneri today. He is the original author of the Amiga Floppy Reader(AFR), of which I refer to very frequently, and have based most of my work to date on. I have...
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...
new face of the amiga floppy project
You’d think that with the lack of posts lately that I haven’t been doing anything. BUT, in fact, I’ve been quite busy. I now have the entire floppy project on one single circuit board, the SX28...
On speed optimization
The theoretical limit, assuming 300rpm drives, is 200ms per track. Or 400ms per cylinder, or 32 seconds per disk. Most attempts read slightly more than one track. I read 16,384 bytes, or 262ms worth. Right now, if I...
