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Emulant
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Hi,

1. The floppy emulator is a great invention. However, still it´s the small RAM capacity that limits on old equipment. I don´t expect such an invention that can expand the RAM but that would be very welcome :)

2. The project page is in both english and french, but it would be very nice if someone could translate the links from the project page to english such as this:

https://hxc2001.com/floppy_drive_emulator/index.html

and this:

http://boutique.cpc-hardware.com/

3. The stand alone unit, does it work as a hard drive independent of a computer? The pictures shows several display verisons of it. One with an LCD and one with a two digit LED and one with just a set of four LED lamps. Are those different reversions or can we choose? to my design I´m planning, a LED with two digits or so wold fit.

Thanks for all help

//H
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Re: general questions

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Emulant wrote:Hi,

1. The floppy emulator is a great invention. However, still it´s the small RAM capacity that limits on old equipment. I don´t expect such an invention that can expand the RAM but that would be very welcome :)
it's a floppy emulator, so the emulated device has the same capacity that a 1.44MB/720KB floppy. you can also put up to 32GB of floppy image files on the sdcard.
Emulant wrote: 2. The project page is in both english and french, but it would be very nice if someone could translate the links from the project page to english such as this:

https://hxc2001.com/floppy_drive_emulator/index.html

and this:

http://boutique.cpc-hardware.com/
yes i know, this will be done in the future.
(note i am not the owner of http://boutique.cpc-hardware.com/ )
Emulant wrote: 3. The stand alone unit, does it work as a hard drive independent of a computer? The pictures shows several display verisons of it. One with an LCD and one with a two digit LED and one with just a set of four LED lamps. Are those different reversions or can we choose? to my design I´m planning, a LED with two digits or so wold fit.

Thanks for all help

//H
yes it's independent.
The lastest prototype is this one :
https://hxc2001.com/floppy_drive_emulat ... ulator.jpg
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Post by Emulant »

So it simply means that it´s expandable to 32 Mb?

Regarding the displays. Will I be able to order one with LED instead? or modify it to LED, I really prefer LED which only tells the file number in front of LCD:s.

Regards

//H
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Post by Jeff »

Emulant wrote:So it simply means that it´s expandable to 32 Mb?
no it's means that you can use SDcard up to 32GigaByte (with tons of floppy images in it):
http://www.memorysuppliers.com/sa32uliisdhi.html
Emulant wrote: Regarding the displays. Will I be able to order one with LED instead? or modify it to LED, I really prefer LED which only tells the file number in front of LCD:s.

Regards

//H
i will study the question with the final pcb.
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Post by Emulant »

Thanks for you replies.

It´s just that I like the simplicity of a small led and it also lights up and looks better aesthetically. But ofcourse, if the floppy emulator gives the possibility to write and give each file a name it would require an LCD.
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