caius wrote:
OK.I see you emulated all the extra X68000 signal and not only the most important (INT and DISK IN).Like other solutions also the yours will requires to activate a switch to notify the insertion/eject of a disk/disk image.
The DISK_PRESENCE_STATUS signal is an input to know if a disk is inserted into the drive or not. This will come directly from the presence detector switch of the drive. By this way, no need to push any button .
The DISK_PRESENCE_STATUS signal is an input to know if a disk is inserted into the drive or not. This will come directly from the presence detector switch of the drive. By this way, no need to push any button .
OK.I guess this will work also on HxC emulator which, obviously, has no mechanical switch.Will you use some signal from HxC MCU to notify the PIC about the insertion of a disk image file?
P.S.
Actually in my previous message I was referring to the 'Insert/Eject Button' I can see on your schematics.
caius wrote:
The DISK_PRESENCE_STATUS signal is an input to know if a disk is inserted into the drive or not. This will come directly from the presence detector switch of the drive. By this way, no need to push any button .
Like Caius, I am also quite interested in whether there are still plans to support X68000 disk images for HxC. I have one on order soon (Standard XVI model) that I can test with if you would like to have a tester, (only it's with a Gotek running your HxC firmware, thanks very much for offering that as a solution by the way!) and I'm sure Caius would offer the same testing support. If I'm not mistaken, he has real HxCs not Goteks like I do.
I think what makes this a desirable format for us is that these computers for the most part except for the rare "CompactXVI" series are typically huge Twin Tower machines with dual 5.25" drives. It's rather difficult in this day and age to write anything to a 5.25" floppy so a FDD emulator solution would be incredibly useful to have.
Thanks for reading and thanks again for what you do! I'm really enjoying being able to use these for PC-98 machines.
I currently have the SD Card HxC is this the correct version to use with the X68000 ? or do i need the Slim SD Card HxC ( is this the new fpga version )
I have wired up the HxC to my X68000 Pro to check what it does without this board and i can see some games do load okay, but others you have to wait on track 4 for it to time out waiting for the additional signals.
I know Jeff you are probably pretty busy, but can you point me in the right direction for getting the pic firmware or is there another HxC on the horizon that solves this issues with running it on an X68000 ?
chris_jh123 wrote: Fri Nov 09, 2018 6:19 pm
Hi All,
I have wired up the HxC to my X68000 Pro to check what it does without this board and i can see some games do load okay, but others you have to wait on track 4 for it to time out waiting for the additional signals.
I know Jeff you are probably pretty busy, but can you point me in the right direction for getting the pic firmware or is there another HxC on the horizon that solves this issues with running it on an X68000 ?
Regards
Chris
some switches to generate some interrupts and io state can be used as workaround.
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