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Tim mentioned something in the last post regarding SYNC which really had me thinking about how to SYNC the data coming in the drive with the data going to the UART of the USB2SER converter. Then I was thinking, now that...

Amiga MFM possibilities

Today, while thinking how the heck I’m going to integrate my 3mbps Parallax USB to Serial converter, I was trying to figure out exactly how many different possibilities there are coming out of an Amiga floppy...

not the PC again?

I was doing some more tests trying to get the PC to fail. It seems that the PC really likes EVEN delays between data, and it’s wierd because faster data that comes in evenly is better than slower data that comes...

current code plus recent progress

Although its ugly, the new code is here. This shows the entire ISR in assembly now. I do like it much better. Tonight I happened to transfer a track that has a good sector. The sector header passed checksum, as did the...

new book

I picked up a copy of Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering this past weekend. I have about 5 or 6 chapters read. All very good. It was published April 2005 or thereabouts, and so its much more updated than the book...