[Coco] Regarding a cheap floppy emulator

[Chris Osborn]

I wonder if the firmware in the emulator can be replaced. Looking at them on eBay they all look identical with the only differences being what disk image formats they say it will support, and what obsolete equipment they are trying to target.

On Sep 9, 2013, at 11:17 AM, Robert Hermanek wrote:

> I played around with a China (affordable) emulator and verified, as expected, that although they work fine in a PC with 720 or 1440 images, they do not work in the coco.  The cheaper emulators are not configurable in any way, and always expect 80 tracks, 9 or 18 sectors per track, 512 byte sectors.  I was hoping against hope that with coco being 35 tracks, 18 sectors, that the emulator would live with it, but I think the 256 vs 512 byte sectors was a deal breaker.