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.

HxC Floppy Emulator DOS Disk Image Browser:

The HxC Floppy Emulator DOS Disk Image Browser is a simplified version of the HxC Floppy Emulator software. This version is designed to replace the VFD solution.

Avantages over the VFD solution:

• No driver installation needed.
• Support of 3 mode DOS floppy disk image (1KB sector size) (For PC98 based CNC machines).
• Support of special/custom DOS floppy disk image (2.5MB,4.5MB,6.78MB…)
• Ready to be used on non-windows systems (Mac, Linux,…) ! ;)
• Simple use !

Release notes for the HxCFloppyEmulator software v2.0.15.0:

• New Loader: SpeccyDos *.SDD support added
• New Loader: Apple 2 DOS 3.3 (*.DO) & ProDOS (*.PO) raw file image added.
• New Writer: HFE file with the HDDD A2 support for Apple II (http://www.bootzero.com/HDDD_A2_v1.2/HDDD_A2v1.2.html)
• New Writer: Atari ST MSA file.
• New Writer: TRS 80 *.JV3 file. (Done by David Barr ! Thanks to him :) )
• New Writer: TRS 80 *.DMK file.
• New Writer: PC88 *.D88 file.
• FAT12 Loader/generator: Atari ST 902KB format corrected.
• FAT12 Loader/generator: Atari ST 4.23MB format corrected.
• HFE File Writer: Track padding function corrected.
• EDE File Loader: edt & edv file support added, ASR 10 gap3 adjusted to 36.
• JV3 File Loader: Sector interleaving correctly implemented.
• IMD File Writer: No allocated sector issue corrected.
• XDMS Lib: UTF8 path support added.
• LIBSAP Lib: UTF8 path support added.
• New Track/Sector support: GCR “6 and 2″ Apple II DOS 3.3/ProDos.
• FAT12 Disk Browser: Handle freeing corrected
• GUI – Drag & Drop Support: URI type path support added (Linux).
• GUI – Track viewer window: New buttons to enable/disable track format analysis.
• GUI – Log window: New buttons to enable/disable logs messages.

• Raw Loader – Predefined raw formats added:
  • Roland W30/S330/W50/S50/S550 DD Floppy Disk.
  • OS9 1280KB Floppy Disk.
  • Linn/Forat 9000 Floppy Disk.
  • KORG T3 3″5 HD Floppy Disk.
  • Atari ST 3″5 DD Floppy Disk
  • Standard 3″5 DOS ED Floppy Disk
  • Special 2.5MB DOS EXHD Floppy Disk
  • Special 4.5MB DOS EXHD Floppy Disk.
  • Special 6.78MB DOS EXHD Floppy Disk.

• Updated:
  • Ensoniq EPS 3″5 HD Floppy Disk : Gap3 adjusted.
  • Standard 3″5 DOS HD Floppy Disk : Gap3 adjusted.
  • Standard 3″5 DOS DD Floppy Disk : Gap3 adjusted.

Download:

• HxCFloppyEmulator v2.0.15.0 (1501)
• HxC Floppy Emulator DOS Disk Image Browse (1431)

source: hxc2001.free.fr lotharek.pl