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Updated to 2.20 - my apologies for the delay in releasing this, been a busy month for me.

As always, please report any issues and I'll do my best to fix them. Still on the list to fix is Aquales (I haven't forgotten!)

On another note - minor revisions and fixes will go in the v2.XX numbering. I am in very early stages of starting work on a v3.00 that will contain multiple hard disk images and separate .hds files. The plan is to further sort content by drive, with separate hdds for retail/doujin games, multimedia, etc. It will take some time as this may be a little more ambitious than the previous genre re-sort, but if all works well will greatly expand our storage space.

Thanks for the suggestions I will try that.

Send back when you have the time and let me know what I owe you 👍

I am not 100% sure with SCSI, but from what I read you still need to go into Switch.x to set the SCSI ID number.

I am not sure of your CF device. But with the other devices I have seen, the file name on the SDcard/CF gives the SCSI ID.

I imagine with a run out battery the X68000 will default to something like '0' so you could put your CF into a PC and see if there is a single file stored on it and what it is called.

If it has say a 3 in the filename try changing it to 0 and see if it boots.

I should be able to write a Masterdisk for you and send back with the Keys. As always its just time to do it all at the moment. 😃

I've got an older pc i had especially done for x68000 floppies. It's not with me at the moment though.

I could do with a master disk and I have purchased a raspberry pinto act as a hard drive.


Fingers crossed it works

There is this device for modern Windows PCs:
https://www.retropassion.co.uk/product/greaseweazle/?v=79cba1185463

Main stumbling block usually is getting hold of a 5.25" drive.

I don't think this device will write .xdf files directly so they will need converting.

You might have to convert to a suitable format via HXC Software.

https://hxc2001.com/download/floppy_drive_emulator/#stm32hxc

There are also other X68000 converters for the other formats such as .dim Sorry I don't have those links to hand.

I expect what you want to write (unless personal data) is available to download in other formats.

I've got a older WinXP rig with internal 5.25" drive for writing disks. There are 2 software solutions for (Omiflop is one ) but it expects an internal disk drive plugged into PCs motherboard.

Quote from: solidpro on April 24, 2024, 04:43:26 PMIs there no way to ground a pin on the Towns PSU? Note the II-HR has a soft power on.

I have ordered a mini ATX and I will attempt to power on with that, but I think it's actually something other than the PSU....

No. The Towns doesnt use ATX logic to turn on and off.

I think youre totally mistaken and that once PSU issue is solved your troubles will go away. Cheer up

Hello

Can anyone supply a copy of the above.

Thank you

Hi everyone, I recently purchased a PC9821 Cx13 with a compact flash configured with YAHDI. I'd like to put in new games to test some translations, but the compact flash is hard to reach inside the machine, so I'd like to be sure of what I'm doing before I disassemble a bunch of stuff. I therefore have a few questions:

1) The system is a pentium, and several old games run badly, see Edge duplicating the game area by replacing the status bar, obviously at crazy speed; is it possible to temporarily decrease the PC speed to be able to play decently?
2) I did some research, and noticed that I can extract HDI files with Vektor's editdisk; can I copy the extracted folder to the compact flash without any other modifications? Is there a way to extract/load games on a floppy like Galaga, Dragon Buster or Mario Bros. Special? I found them in .d88 and .nfd format, but opening these files with Vektor's ultility returns errors.
3) Finally, reaching the compact flash is really inconvenient, and lends itself poorly to trial-and-error. is it possible to burn a CD with the game folders and somehow switch them from CD to compact flash? I saw that YAHDI has a Log Disk command (I assume to browse the contents) and Move, which in theory should allow me to do what I want.

That's a lot of questions, I realise. Thanks in advance to anyone who can take the time to clarify them for me.

Is there a way to write 5.25 inch floppies on a modern day PC from a .xdf image.


Thank you

Your Expert HD will be old style capacitors so they should be good. Definitely check out those 4 disk drive caps.

Forum member aotta has designed a great device for simulating floppy Eject/Insert signals. There is a Topic about it on this forum but here is the GitHub:
https://github.com/aotta/X68KFDPi

Gotek with FlashFloppy or HxC firmware is near perfect emulation. But you really need 2 drives as that is what X68000 games expect.

If you don't use aotta's X68KFDPi you can use a modified floppy disk cable. On my OG X68000 I use the internal drives for the Eject and Insert signals, and then I have the floppy cable running out the back to my double stacked Goteks.

But really with a ram expansion and a HD you will only use Floppy for setting SRAM if battery runs out. Most games can now run from HD.