general questions

[Emulant]

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

[Jeff]

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.

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/ )

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

[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

[Jeff]

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

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.

[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.