[Coco] Software testing for FDC emulator

[Roger Taylor]

>
>My FDC emulator is yet another piece of hardware that plugs into the
>CoCo's cartridge port or an MPI.  It appears as a standard floppy disk
>controller to the CoCo, but will typically interface with a server on
>a separate PC instead of a real floppy drive.  The server must support
>a more robust disk image format (DMK being the obvious choice) in
>order to deal with copy-protected software and non-standard disk
>formats.
>
>In addition to emulating a floppy disk controller, the device can also
>be used to download ROM pak images from a server and execute them with
>read-only access to the code.
>
>I know Steve Bjork has announced a similar project which sounds a
>little more advanced than mine.  I've been working on my design (when
>I can find the spare time) for about two years now, so I plan on
>seeing it through to completion.  It's been quite challenging and also
>a lot of fun.
>
>Darren


You'll eventually get to the point where it's not an emulator but an 
actual floppy drive controller instead of "disk controller", so you 
can still get away with calling it an FDC.  :)


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~ Roger Taylor