L’interfaccia ‘HxC Floppy Drive Emulator‘ è un sistema hardware e software creato da jfdn aka Jeff.

L’obiettivo di questo progetto è quello di sostituire l’unità floppy disk con un dispositivo elettronico che emula il floppy drive (lista dell’hardware supportato).

Esistono due interfaccie di emulazione:

• Una versione USB che permette di collegare l’interfaccia floppy disk drive del computer a un PC tramite un cavo USB.
• Una versione SDCARD che permette di emulare i floppy disk tramite le immagini memorizzate su una SDCARD.

Download:

• HxC Floppy Emulator Firmware v1.8.2.24 (1064)

Firmware SD HxCFloppyEmulator v1.8.2.24:

• Write Support completely redesigned / reworked :
  • Low level track format support added!
  • The host computer/machine can now do low level format of the disk images !
  • By this way the floppy disk image can be formatted with the right disk layout from the machine.
  • All the tracks parameters used by the machine (sector size, interleave/skew, gap, format value, index mark…)
  • will be written to the virtual disk tracks !
  • By this way the user have just to copy some blank HFE images to the SDCard, and format them with the host machine
  • as with a real floppy disk to make them usable.
  • Some blank disk images with various density will available for download on the HxC2001 website.
  • SD/DD/HD sector write support : all sector sizes are now supported ! : 128B, 256B, 512B, 1024B, 2048B, 4096B, 8192B…

• Unaligned track/sector write is now possible :
  • Sectors of host formatted images and images imported from stream files (Kryoflux…) can now be written !

• SD Access enhanced : Better handling, track buffer size increased.
• Floppy interface mode enhanced : New Pin02/Pin34 Custom settings.
• Indexed files mode added :
  • File naming convention : DSKXYYYY.HFE with X=A for drive A & X=B for drive B and YYYY=index number.
  • Once the SDCard is in the emulator, the “next” button allows you to select the next file image.
  • Once the last file is reached, the index is set to 0 (DSKA0000.HFE/DSKB0000.HFE).
  • To jump to the first image (DSKA0000.HFE/DSKB0000.HFE) from any index position, you have just to push the “next” button more than one second.
  • To use it, this mode must be enabled into the HXCSDFE.CFG file.
  • This mode was added to offer a compatibility with the Slim version of the HxC Floppy Emulator (no lcd and only one button).

• SDCard file system support enhanced : Now support FAT 12, FAT 16 & FAT 32 formatted SDCard ! Any SDCard size are now supported !
• Direct access mode : New function to get and set easily the current index number in “file selector” & indexed mode.
• Low level LCD routines improved, file name scrolling behaviour changed : pause of ~1s before starting the scrolling.
• Embedded files browser : Files are now filtered : Only HFE files & folders are shown and can be selected.
• Lots of internal code optimizations/improvements and corrections…

Download:

• HxC Floppy Emulator Firmware v1.8.2.24 (1064)

source: hxc2001.free.fr