New Projet: TFE Floppy emulator

[Alco]

TFE is an SD/MMC floppy drive emulator for old computers. It connects to the floppy drive port of the host computer and behaves like a real floppy drive, except that the data comes from the SD/MMC card instead of real media.

Two important things about it:

*CPC support
*Atmega32-based, low parts count, single-sided PCB, easy to build (no SMD).

http://retromaster.wordpress.com/tfe/


*** From the same guy:

http://tolgaretro.blogspot.com/2007/05/atari-2600-on-fpga.html
http://frodo.boob.co.uk

[Gryzor]

Yes, this is a lovely project. The only real limitation is that you cannot write to the SD.

Unfortunately he doesn't seem to be selling them...

[Ygdrazil]

No, a pity he doesn't sell them.

But unfortunately the design looks fairly easy to replicate, much more easy than the two other designs..

If he solves the 'read only limitation' it might be possible to make a batch!

/Ygdrazil

Yes, this is a lovely project. The only real limitation is that you cannot write to the SD.

Unfortunately he doesn't seem to be selling them...

[Alco]

http://retromaster.wordpress.com/2010/06/12/amstrad-cpc6128-with-ufe

[OCT]

Looks like he even found the Holy Grail of Amiga floppy emulation: http://retromaster.wordpress.com/category/retrocomputing/#post-558

Let's hope he for one loves his design so much that he sets it free, for high-speed breeding by the likes of Seeed in industrial volume production runs, rather than painstakingly soldering just a few one by one (with no chances of reaching critical mass and media attention as a floppy replacement).

OTOH http://atariamiga.free.fr/sdiskemul3.php does not fail to impress either.

[Alco]

The UFE page,   which contains detailed info, photos, a video and schematics.


http://retromaster.wordpress.com/ufe

[Gryzor]

Hmmmmm this looks nice. Already have my HxC emu though... I'm not that sure it's got any serious advantage over it - or does it? The on-screen interface is great, but this means it's heavily depended on the host hardware. Can anyone imagine it working flawlessly on the CPC? Sort of like a MultiFace?

Btw, X-Copy... anyone's got an adf within easy reach to share with me? And, anyone remembers the DOS version (VGACopy)?