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DEATH / HxC SD card floppy emulator / Virtual Floppy Drive (Announce)

posted by DOS386, 08.05.2010, 07:02

> Indeed have you not seen the excellent floppy_drive_emulator HxC

No, thanks for the link.

Good things:

- works on the very lowest level, maximum compatibility (probably not with copy protection "technologies", though ...)

Evil things:

- Device needs paying for
- Another host PC needed
- Windaube needed on host side (we got DOSUSB and USBDOS ...)

> Update: Just realized someone might comment re low cost SD to IDE

SD - Sucks as the Devil

> compact flash adapter to IDE adapters

I could test one some time ago and it looks very good: less mass, less heat, less noise, less volume, less mechanical sensitivity and less electricity wasting I don't know about the lifetime, though

> Ken Kato's Virtual Floppy Drive for Windows also works really well and
> comes with the GPL'd C++ source code.

No value at all, sorry

> I doubt VFD will work with HX "as is" but maybe
> someone might be interested in porting VFD to DOS?

Impossible

A nice early PC (8086, 80286, maybe 80386, ISA SB, VGA, floppy 5+1/4 and 3+1/2, PC speaker, serial+parallel) full emulator (host DOS) would be also cool

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Complete thread:

• FYI: DEATH (again, after cca 30 years) - DOS386, 07.05.2010, 05:07 (Announce)
  • HxC SD card floppy emulator / Virtual Floppy Drive / Flopper - Arjay, 07.05.2010, 17:27
    • DEATH / HxC SD card floppy emulator / Virtual Floppy Drive - DOS386, 08.05.2010, 07:02
      • DEATH / HxC SD card floppy emulator / Virtual Floppy Drive - Arjay, 08.05.2010, 13:18
        • Other hardware floppy emulators - using USB sticks on ebay - Arjay, 08.05.2010, 16:43
        • DEATH / HxC SD card floppy emulator / Virtual Floppy Drive - DOS386, 13.05.2010, 03:51
  • FYI: DEATH (again, after cca 30 years) - Rugxulo, 08.05.2010, 13:35
    • FYI: DEATH (again, after cca 30 years) - Arjay, 08.05.2010, 13:55
  • floppyem.sys - config.sys Floppy Emulator device driver - Arjay, 08.05.2010, 18:03
    • floppyem.sys - config.sys Floppy Emulator device driver - rr, 08.05.2010, 21:12
      • floppyem.sys - config.sys Floppy Emulator device driver - Arjay, 09.05.2010, 00:39
  • FDD emulator - Vehudis, 09.05.2010, 08:46
    • FDD emulators - fakedisk (read-only) + DF-IFS (read/write) - Arjay, 09.05.2010, 12:27
  • FYI: DEATH (again, after cca 30 years) - roytam, 09.05.2010, 09:48