While I shouldn’t be surprised, my SX hardware issue is related to double one’s, where the SX sees transitions back to back, and writes back to back 1’s into memory. This is assuming there aren’t...
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MFMSanityCheck
While I’m hesitant to post this at all, this is a quick and dirty application I threw together, and I do mean threw, that will check for valid MFM bytes. See the previous post for the link to the actual bytes. It...
recent status
Well, I’ve put a decent number of hours in on the project over the last couple weeks. I’ve mostly been “spinning my wheels” because I haven’t made much progress, but I think I’ve...
Found another UART timing issue
Ok. A post or two back, I mentioned that I wanted to rework the receive UART because it wasn’t working perfect. I fixed that, and now it’s reliably receiving. I also mentioned that my sending uart code was...
slacking indeed
I’ve been horrible about the project lately. Dunno why. Today is the first time I’ve looked at it in quite some time. The last couple hours have been spent trying to remember exactly where I’ve been...
minor success at 2:00am
well I’ve got MFM flowing from the PC drive now. A couple of things: Pins 10 and 14, the pins I’ve been using since last night, appear to be correct. Pin 10 is the motor lead. Dropping a corresponding SX...




