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Re: [Fairlight-CMI] Floppydrive upgrade

2009-04-13 by Jean-Bernard EMOND

Yes JF Del Nero use some part of my image floppy disk for test... is 6 
month ago ;)

But a this time the solution is working only in read mode... not in 
write mode...

Work in progress !

JN

Peter Kersten a écrit :
> 
> 
> The attempt described here: 
> http://www.vintagesynth.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=45592&sid=d6103fb80ec0fe0448c82b3c9d1d7b39&start=30 
> <http://www.vintagesynth.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=45592&sid=d6103fb80ec0fe0448c82b3c9d1d7b39&start=30> 
> ,didn't work out.
> 
> The latest news states: "Jean-François Del Nero is currently adding 
> Fairlight Series II support to his brilliant HxC emulator. It's still 
> early days but it sounds promising. He is looking for H/W savvy people 
> to help him with testing on the real thing."
> 
> So yesterday I wrote an email and got this reply:
> 
> "Yes the HxC Floppy Emulator should works with the Fairlight CMI series 
> (with the IMD file support), but nobody has tested it.
> At the moment, the only way to get a board is to build it yourself : 
> http://jeanfrancoisdelnero.free.fr/floppy_drive_emulator/index.html 
> <http://jeanfrancoisdelnero.free.fr/floppy_drive_emulator/index.html> .
> 
> Regards,
> Jean-François DEL NERO"
> 
> My French is very poor. Is there anyone willing to give this a try?
> I'm pretty sure the connector needs to be adapted.....
> 
> How nice would it be if one could select out of 1000 (0-999) floppies on 
> a single SD-Card......
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Peter Kersten.
> 
>

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