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progress on windows side

I put some time into the windows program that makes this whole thing tick tonight.  When I first started this project, I started with Marco’s afr.c, and pared it down to the bare necessities.  Then, I modified...

vacation reading

While I’m on vacation this week, I’m reading a book about making your own circuit boards using Cadsoft’s Eagle. Eagle is a schematic capture and board layout program that seems pretty popular and...

added commands

So I’ve added commands to support forward/backward stepping and upper and lower sides. R for Read D for Dump F/B for stepping either Forward or Backward U/L for selecting upper or lower side. I’ve tested...

March 21st Status

Well, here’s where I’m at: The external amiga floppy drive is now hooked directly to my SX microcontroller.  The code within the microcontroller waits for a command.  If it get’s a “B”...

working on the floppy interface

Well I’m now inline with a data tap, so I have access to all 25 pins on the floppy interface between the amiga and the floppy drive.  I used to attach to the DB23 on the pass-thru port of the floppy drive, but I...