[Coco] FDC Emulation ( was Re: A semi-real CoCo topic)

[Mike Pepe]

Michael R. Furman wrote:
> Correct me if I am mistaken, but I thought that DriveWire was just
> software and a cable that plugs into the bit-banger serial port?   
> Doing it this way has the advantage that you still have the real floppy
> drive available....
> 

You're right. What's described here is nothing like drivewire at all.

I've been kicking around something similar in my head, though not USB 
based, but flash based- an "emulation" of the floppy controller that 
uses solid state media. But as of now it's still a dream :)




> On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 14:12 +1000, Bob Devries wrote:
> 
>> Hehe, this sounds suspiciously like Cloud9's DriveWire.
>>
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>> Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia
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