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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...

USB uart send and receive

Good news, good news. After banging my head on the same problem for the last three hours, I’ve finally made some more progress. Using option #2 from the previous post, I’ve written two non-isr based software...

merging USB receive

Well, I’ve managed to merge the USB receive portion into the main program that reads and processes tracks.  This means I no longer need an external program to receive the data, to write it to a file, to read the...