The goals for the project follow:
- Learn electronics, digital logic, FPGAs, and microcontrollers
- Everything open-source and available
- Share what I learn by publishing results of my research
- Create an external USB amiga floppy drive controller that can read amiga floppies using a standard PC floppy drive and create .ADF files for archiving and emulation
- Have fun being an active participant in retro-computing
A very interesting project. You seem to be getting some great results. I have long been interested in a non-Catweasle approach to this problem. So what are your plans for this device. Hopefully you will commecialize it. I would surely buy one. Best regards, Mike
Thanks for the comments Mike.
Right now, the current gen solution is pretty heavy in terms of hardware. I use a $150 eval board, but 90% of the hardware on that board is simply not used. I need to distill down the true requirements to make it viable for home DIY’ers to build it. I don’t think this would be hard but it depends on the availability of spartan-3e (or similar) prototype boards.