The HxC Floppy Drive Emulator is a software and hardware system created by jfdn aka Jeff.
The aim of this project is to replace the floppy disk drive by an electronic device emulating the floppy disk drive (list of supported Computer/Hardware).
There are two differents emulators:
- A USB version which allows to connect the floppy disk drive interface of the computer to a PC via a USB cable.
- A SDCARD version which allows to emulate floppy disks which images are stored in a SDCARD.
Changelog SD HxCFloppyEmulator v1.8.2.36 (fat) & v2.1.2.36 (slim):
- Write Support : Write issue with VIA VT82C686A chipset based motherboard corrected.
Download:
source: hxc2001.free.fr
The HxC Floppy Drive Emulator is a software and hardware system created by jfdn aka Jeff.
The aim of this project is to replace the floppy disk drive by an electronic device emulating the floppy disk drive (list of supported Computer/Hardware).
There are two differents emulators:
- A USB version which allows to connect the floppy disk drive interface of the computer to a PC via a USB cable.
- A SDCARD version which allows to emulate floppy disks which images are stored in a SDCARD.
Changelog SD HxCFloppyEmulator v1.8.2.30 (fat) & v2.1.2.30 (slim):
- SDCard Support : Delay added right after any command (PNY microSD support).
- Watchdog delay changed to 16s.
- Brownout reset setting changed.
Download:
source: hxc2001.free.fr
The HxC Floppy Drive Emulator is a software and hardware system created by jfdn aka Jeff.
The aim of this project is to replace the floppy disk drive by an electronic device emulating the floppy disk drive (list of supported Computer/Hardware).
There are two differents emulators:
- A USB version which allows to connect the floppy disk drive interface of the computer to a PC via a USB cable.
- A SDCARD version which allows to emulate floppy disks which images are stored in a SDCARD.
Changelog SD HxCFloppyEmulator v1.8.2.26 (fat) & v2.1.2.26 (slim):
- Device init : the whole internal memory is now cleared at power-up.
Download:
source: hxc2001.free.fr
The HxC Floppy Drive Emulator is a software and hardware system created by jfdn aka Jeff.
The aim of this project is to replace the floppy disk drive by an electronic device emulating the floppy disk drive (list of supported Computer/Hardware).
There are two differents emulators:
- A USB version which allows to connect the floppy disk drive interface of the computer to a PC via a USB cable.
- A SDCARD version which allows to emulate floppy disks which images are stored in a SDCARD.
Firmware Slim SD HxCFloppyEmulator v2.1.2.24:
- SD Access enhanced : Better handling, track buffer size increased.
- Floppy interface mode enhanced : New Pin02/Pin34 Custom settings.
- 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.
- Lots of internal code optimizations/improvements and corrections…
- 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 be 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 !
Download:
source: hxc2001.free.fr
The HxC Floppy Drive Emulator is a software and hardware system created by jfdn aka Jeff.
The aim of this project is to replace the floppy disk drive by an electronic device emulating the floppy disk drive (list of supported Computer/Hardware).
There are two differents emulators:
- A USB version which allows to connect the floppy disk drive interface of the computer to a PC via a USB cable.
- A SDCARD version which allows to emulate floppy disks which images are stored in a SDCARD.
Download:
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…
Read more…
The HxC Floppy Drive Emulator is a software and hardware system created by jfdn aka Jeff.
The aim of this project is to replace the floppy disk drive by an electronic device emulating the floppy disk drive (list of supported Computer/Hardware).
There are two differents emulators:
- A USB version which allows to connect the floppy disk drive interface of the computer to a PC via a USB cable.
- A SDCARD version which allows to emulate floppy disks which images are stored in a SDCARD.
Release notes for the HxCFloppyEmulator software v2.0.16.0:
- FAT12 Loader/generator : Files size, disk size & disk free size displayed, lots of sanity checks added.
- TRS80 Writer : Bad free() removed.
- General : Software passed with valgrind : Some memory leaks and possible issues corrected.
Download:
source: hxc2001.free.fr lotharek.pl
The HxC Floppy Drive Emulator is a software and hardware system created by jfdn aka Jeff.
The aim of this project is to replace the floppy disk drive by an electronic device emulating the floppy disk drive (list of supported Computer/Hardware).
There are two differents emulators:
- A USB version which allows to connect the floppy disk drive interface of the computer to a PC via a USB cable.
- A SDCARD version which allows to emulate floppy disks which images are stored in a SDCARD.
Release notes for the HxCFloppyEmulator software v2.0.15.1:
- FAT12 Loader/generator : Default file creation date set to 1985 to avoid issue with non year 2000 compatibles machines (Kawasaki JS30 robots…).
- Apple 2 Sectors generator : End of sector sync corrected, 6&2 GCR encoder corrected.
- Track viewer : Sectors on track boundary display issue corrected.
Download:
source: hxc2001.free.fr lotharek.pl
The HxC Floppy Drive Emulator is a software and hardware system created by jfdn aka Jeff.
The aim of this project is to replace the floppy disk drive by an electronic device emulating the floppy disk drive (list of supported Computer/Hardware).
There are two differents emulators:
- A USB version which allows to connect the floppy disk drive interface of the computer to a PC via a USB cable.
- A SDCARD version which allows to emulate floppy disks which images are stored in a 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:
source: hxc2001.free.fr lotharek.pl
The HxC Floppy Drive Emulator is a software and hardware system created by jfdn aka Jeff.
The aim of this project is to replace the floppy disk drive by an electronic device emulating the floppy disk drive (list of supported Computer/Hardware).
There are two differents emulators:
- A USB version which allows to connect the floppy disk drive interface of the computer to a PC via a USB cable.
- A SDCARD version which allows to emulate floppy disks which images are stored in a SDCARD.
Firmware Slim SD HxCFloppyEmulator v2.0.2.2:
- First public SD Slim version firmware.
Release notes for the HxCFloppyEmulator software v2.0.12.2:
- GUI now Based on FLTK : http://www.fltk.org/
- Windows / Mac / Linux support ( http://torlus.com/floppy/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1120 ;) )
- New library : libhxcfe -> Contains the floppy management functions (track generator/images loaders/analyser/file system layer…).
- New library : libusbhxcfe -> Contains the HxC USB Floppy Emulator support layer.
- New Integrated DOS Disk browser : Can generate / add / get / remove files from any DOS HFE files.
- New Track Viewer/Analyser : Low level floppy track is now analysed and displayed.
- “Load Raw image” : Predefined floppy disk format description in XML (based on Expat XML Parser)
- New low level Track format : TYCOM (custom FM) & MEMBRAIN (custom MFM)
- Floppy disk dump : “missing sector” issue with some FDC corrected.
- FM Track format : desync added to the end of the track to solve the SCAN command issue with some FDC.
- Disk Browser : Support of special/custom 2.5MB DD & 4.5MB HD FAT floppy disk format.
- Batch converter : It is now possible to batch convert RAW images files.
- Track pregap support/setting added.
- Some issues corrected & enhancement in the following loader : D88,JV3,DMK,IMD,AFI,EDE,OricDSK,Emax…
- New file export support : TI99/4A V9T9 file image
- New Loader : Kryoflux Stream Loader (*XX.X.raw) / analyser.
- New Loader : Sega System24 Loader (*.S24)
- New Loader : Apple 2 NIB image support added. (*.NIB)
- New Loader : Casio FZF floppy image support added.
- W30 Loader : Roland S50/S330/S550 image support added.
- HFE Files : New alternate format flags for the track 0 side 0 & side 1.
- Sanity check function added to some loader.
- And a lot of minor corrections/enhancement too.
Download:
source: hxc2001.free.fr lotharek.pl
The HxC Floppy Drive Emulator is a software and hardware system created by jfdn aka Jeff.
The aim of this project is to replace the floppy disk drive by an electronic device emulating the floppy disk drive (list of supported Computer/Hardware).
There are two differents emulators:
- A USB version which allows to connect the floppy disk drive interface of the computer to a PC via a USB cable.
- A SDCARD version which allows to emulate floppy disks which images are stored in a SDCARD.
Firmware SD HxCFloppyEmulator v1.7.2.0:
- Microchip PIC18F4620 Rev. B5 Silicon MSSP Module Errata applied (correct possible SDCard Init issues).
- SDCard layer reviewed / corrected / enhanced : Better SDCard compatibility / Error handling.
Release notes for the HxCFloppyEmulator software v2.0.6.0:
- PRE-RELEASE – IN DEVELOPMENT: HxCFloppyEmulator software v2.0.6.0 (Windows & Mac OS X support !)
Download:
source: hxc2001.free.fr
The HxC Floppy Drive Emulator is a software and hardware system created by jfdn aka Jeff.
The aim of this project is to replace the floppy disk drive by an electronic device emulating the floppy disk drive (list of supported Computer/Hardware).
There are two differents emulators:
- A USB version which allows to connect the floppy disk drive interface of the computer to a PC via a USB cable.
- A SDCARD version which allows to emulate floppy disks which images are stored in a SDCARD.
Release notes for the HxCFloppyEmulator software v2.0.3.0:
- PRE-RELEASE – IN DEVELOPMENT: HxCFloppyEmulator software v2.0.3.0 (Windows & Mac OS X support !)
Download: HxCFloppyEmulator v2.0.3.0 *BETA* (1070)
source: hxc2001.free.fr
The HxC Floppy Drive Emulator is a software and hardware system created by jfdn aka Jeff.
The aim of this project is to replace the floppy disk drive by an electronic device emulating the floppy disk drive (list of supported Computer/Hardware).
There are two differents emulators:
- A USB version which allows to connect the floppy disk drive interface of the computer to a PC via a USB cable.
- A SDCARD version which allows to emulate floppy disks which images are stored in a SDCARD.
Firmware SD HxCFloppyEmulator v1.7.1.2:
- Drive A <> Drive B constant polling issue corrected (Atari ST).
- Better SD Card error handling.
Firmware SD HxCFloppyEmulator v1.7.1.1:
- New embedded setting menu : To access this menu remove the SDCard and press the select button.
- By this menu you can:
- Change the floppy Interface mode.
- Change the bitrate.
- Change the track step mode.
- Enable/disable the drive B.
- Enable/disable the step sound.
- Set the user interface sound volume.
- Set the backlight timing.
- Set the standby timing.
- Check the software and bootloader version (integrity test included).
- Clear/reset the settings and reset the Emulator.
- Exit this menu…
- SD Card: Issue with some sd card corrected : Incompatibility with some SD chipset corrected.
- Write support: Timing for MFM / FM 250/300/500KBits/s write support readjusted. DataMark supported : 0xFB,0xF8 (deleted data mark), 0xFA,0xF9. HFE file format enhanced : Track 0 Side 0 & Track 0 Side 1 track write mode can be different from the others tracks.
- New track seek algorithm: Faster track seek/settle time -> Faster Loading time !
- Flip disk function: the disk image can now be flipped (reverse side 0side 1).
- Bad track number at power up corrected (E-mu Emulator I/II, SP1200, Linn/Forat 9000…)
- Experimental “Rev2″ HFE support : Correct some issue with some Amiga games/demos.
- Lots of internals code optimization…
Download:
source: hxc2001.free.fr
The HxC Floppy Drive Emulator is a software and hardware system created by jfdn aka Jeff.
The aim of this project is to replace the floppy disk drive by an electronic device emulating the floppy disk drive (list of supported Computer/Hardware).
There are two differents emulators:
- A USB version which allows to connect the floppy disk drive interface of the computer to a PC via a USB cable.
- A SDCARD version which allows to emulate floppy disks which images are stored in a SDCARD.
Release notes for the HxCFloppyEmulator software v1.6.11.16:
- Akai S950 DD & Akai S950 HD interface mode support added (need firmware v1.6.4.4 or more)
- … full release notes here
Download: HxCFloppyEmulator software v1.6.11.16 (956)
source: hxc2001.free.fr
Lotharek has made a new PCB for the HxC Floppy Drive Emulator designed by Jean-François DEL NERO so that fits inside in a standard 3.5 bay for industrial / home use. The case will be soon available on the site.
source: lotharek.pl
This version of ADF Opus was modified by Jean-François Del Nero to directly handle HFE files images for the SD HxC Floppy Emulator.
Download: ADF Opus For SD HxC Floppy Emulator (1168)
source: hxc2001.free.fr
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