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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...

Success!@#

I hestitate to jump to conclusions, but I think I just passed a crucial first step in getting this to work!@#!# After adjusting some timing on my new code on the SX, I’ve found my first 0x4489 0x4489 pattern. This...

Speed of the reading on the PC

Ok, well I’m now satisfied that the PC is fast enough to do its portion of this job, using the standard WinIo dll. I managed to redo a portion of the code so it’s faster, and the total time on the PC is 6...

followup on speed of inpout32

Welp, did some testing last night, and no, it doesn’t look like inpout32 is really going to be any faster. Damn shame because it was relatively easy to setup and use. Quick reply from the authors(thank you) who...