Hi all,
I want to post here my result with SD HxC floppy emulator and CompactXVI.For the uninitiated the SDCard HxC Floppy Emulator is an universal floppy drive emulator based on SD/SDHC memory card designed by Francois del Nero:
http://hxc2001.free.fr/floppy_drive_emulator/ (http://hxc2001.free.fr/floppy_drive_emulator/)
Now, We all know that internal FDDs of the X68000 CompactXVI model are very fragile and prone to failure and since no valid substitute or replacement exist the SD HxC is a good alternative .Here are some video I made :
SD HxC floppy emulator test#1 on X68000 CompactXVI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4y6KkzXjFQ#)
SD HxC floppy emulator test#2 on X68000 CompactXVI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApIDIY7pzwk#)
As you can see I succesfully loaded two games (based on 1 or 2 floppy since one HxC board can emulated two drives at time) but due of the lack of X68000 FDD extra-signals emulation there are still issues with multi-disks games or games that use particular signals but the author ( and also someone from this forum) is working on this.
This is the diagram to follow to interface X68000 CompactXVI and SD HxC floppy emulator.
X68000 CompactXVI Signal SD HxC Floppy emulator connector
Internal floppy connector
(Shugart)
17 Disk type select 2
8 DS3 6
31 Index 8
5 DS0 10
6 DS1 12
7 DS2 14
12 Motor ON 16
14 Direction 18
15 Step 20
10 Write Data 22
13 Write Gate 24
29 Track 00 26
30 Write Protect 28
33 Read Data 30
16 Side Select 32
28 Ready 34
1-9-11-32-34 Ground 1-3-5-7-9-11-13-15-17-19-21-23-25-27-29-31-33
Note also that I removed original internal floppy FFC connector and put simple female headers for a more easy connection using a custom ribbon cable I made.But you can connect HxC emulator also to external FDD connector if you want and use it as FDDs 2-3 (obviously the connection diagram will be different).
GREAT JOB! 8)
Hey!
I've been looking this HxC thread for some time. Are you in touch with the creator?
I've seen some plan posted eons ago, so he could not be that motivated. Maybe trying to gather some kind of pre-ordering might convince him he's not wasting his time? :)
Hi, yes, I'm trying to cmmunicate with author Jeff, I opened a thread on the support forum:
http://torlus.com/floppy/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=1372 (http://torlus.com/floppy/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=1372)
but , as you said, I don't how much he is motivated.The problem is that he should modify the whole board in order to implement X68000 FDD extra-signals emulation since no free I/O ports are available in the MCU.
I've just got the forum activation, so i've sent a small message in your threads.
Hopefully it will add a little supporting and keep Jeff motivation from fading. :)
Quote from: Neshek on February 12, 2014, 05:46:17 AM
I've just got the forum activation, so i've sent a small message in your threads.
Hopefully it will add a little supporting and keep Jeff motivation from fading. :)
Yes, I have already seen, thanks.I hope Jeff will listen our appeal, let's wait and see.