[Coco] FDC emulators was:Re: Its Alive!

[Steve Bjork]

While that one emulates the floppy drive, the one he is talking about 
emulates the floppy disk controller and drive.

While having a more limited market, the emulating both the controller 
and floppy is simpler and cheaper to do.  In my opinion, a better 
solution since the interface is cleaner and allows for faster transfer 
times.  (No delays from head/sectors seeks or clocking the bits around.)

Add an USB interface to the SD card, then a modern computer can run a 
Drive Wire type of system to server up files.  You now have a great CoCo 
IDE on a fast modern computer while running the test code on a REAL and 
unmodified CoCo system.

Steve

On 10/10/2013 7:30 AM, Jens wrote:
> Am 10.10.2013 16:17, schrieb Brian Blake:
>> Darren A. (and I think someone else) was working on a hardware 
>> emulator - no
>> idea what the status is.
>>
>
> See here: http://virtualfloppy.blogspot.ca/
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