Monthly Archives: February 2007

java and portability

While I have some experience with Java, I’ve never tried to run my stuff cross-platform. Never a real need. While most of the Java stuff has yet to be written, I took some basic serial code and GUI stuff, and … Continue reading

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java screenshot of reader software

Opinions anybody?

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Marco Veneri

I had the great pleasure of trading emails with Marco Veneri today.  He is the original author of the Amiga Floppy Reader(AFR), of which I refer to very frequently, and have based most of my work to date on. I … Continue reading

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thinking about cross-platform support

To make this accessible to everyone, I’d really like to add support for more than just Windows.  I thought that Java would be my ticket to freedom here, but that is turning sour real fast. From what I’m able to … Continue reading

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added byte-sync to my transfer routine

Well, after much thought, pondering, and discussion with David, I finally implemented a working byte-sync routine to my SX software. I don’t have it fully working with the PC side software yet, because this requires semi-major surgery on that side. … Continue reading

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new amiga floppy project images

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new face of the amiga floppy project

You’d think that with the lack of posts lately that I haven’t been doing anything. BUT, in fact, I’ve been quite busy. I now have the entire floppy project on one single circuit board, the SX28 protoboard. See http://www.parallax.com/detail.asp?product_id=45302 for … Continue reading

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reworking my uart

Well I rewrote my recv and send uart, and with the help of my logic analyzer, I’ve tuned them up pretty good. I’m getting some transfer errors, somehow, and I think its related to buffer size. I read a disk … Continue reading

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