HxC Floppy Emulator cable with integrated ABBA switch

[Gryzor]

very simple, very elegant, works.

[Bryce]

I gave you the Like for putting the MegaFlash in the picture too

Bryce.

[Gryzor]

Didn't mean to, but what the heck, it's always there

[Bryce]

And... Hiding bills behind your monitor won't make them go away! You have to pay them eventually

Nice ABBA switch too by the way

Bryce.

[Gryzor]

Bills go directly to the incinerator. This is a receipt

[SyX]

Nice!!! I'll try to clone it

[redbox]

Looks good Gryzor.

Negative points for not having so many ROMs that the screen has scrolled on boot-up though 

[TFM]

And... Hiding bills behind your monitor won't make them go away! You have to pay them eventually

Nice ABBA switch too by the way

Bryce.

Hold on, he will pay you later 

[Gryzor]

Negative points for not having so many ROMs that the screen has scrolled on boot-up though 

I've been loading and off-loading so many ROMs that this is the light stage by now... Only Nyancat stays

[MacDeath]

Yep, this is quite elegant indeed, nice idea, This can give some ideas.

Is this some mundane IDE flat-cable ?


Also : OMG, is dat a Cat ? I love Cats.!!!!

[Bryce]

It's a standard Shugart cable, ie: the flat cable used to connect floppy drives in a PC.

Bryce.

[Gryzor]

Yes it is.

It came as a slight surprise that I don't have to change the pins shorted on the board itself, it works just by flipping the switch; I half-expected it to need to change the pins as well...

Also, I haven't tried changing drives with the machine on. I don't think anything terrible will happen, maybe the machine will get confused... yet it's itching me

[Bryce]

As long as the CPC isn't accessing a drive at the moment you switch, then there's no problem switching back and forth while the CPC is running.

Bryce.

[Gryzor]

Yeah, makes sense. For some reason I was thinking in terms of modern computers that occasionally communicate with drives even when you don't specifically use them...