[Coco] Actual FDD replacement with Emulator.

Gene Heskett gheskett at shentel.net
Mon Dec 18 20:54:09 EST 2017


On Monday 18 December 2017 17:58:15 John Mautz wrote:

> I use those on my Amiga.  Have not tried to get it working with a
> CoCo. The unit has pins not a edge connector so that would need to be
> addressed.
>
Unfortunately, those drives for the amiga have no index pulse output. The 
amiga disk driver read and wrote an entire track at a time and did not 
care where in the disks rotation it was when it did it.

So unless you can figure out how to get a valid index pulse out of them, 
they are not going to work on the coco, ever.

> On Dec 18, 2017 5:09 PM, "Steve Pedersen"
> <666jacktheknife666 at gmail.com>
>
> wrote:
> > Ran across this In my wandering the net.
> > Has anyone messed around with somthing similr ?
> > http://lotharek.pl/product.php?pid=121
> >
> > yeah there a bit spendy, but slotting one of these in an FD-502
> > drive enclosure would be pretty rad.
> >
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