Despite having a couple different official sources, both AFR.c and floppy.c from the fellow amiga emulator says that the even bits come before the odd bits. This is true in the sector header decoding as well as in the...
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example files
I wanted to put up some example files. Note that a preceding “D” for dump and two delimiting 0xFF’s might exist in these files. Also an ending 0xFF 0xFF might exist. So two bad files below have exactly...
looking at the code this a.m.
Welp, I decided to take a look at my code today, although I can’t actually implement anything until after I get home from work. 🙂 Not sure if I mentioned this eariler, but I’m now padding the data sent from...
good data vs bad
So you’ve seen me talk about good data and bad data. But what’s the difference? Good data looks like the picture I posted awhile back here. Note the very even spread of 4—4—8. Every pattern is...
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As you can see above, we have a “10” (4 us), another “10”(4 us) and a “1000”(8 us) chunks of data. Little noisy there.
going around the problem
Welp, I’ve ordered a new, but cheap ($5.99!) regular PC floppy drive from newegg.com. I like this end result much better anyways. PC drives are much more available, popular, cheap, and so on. was worried about...
