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Some pictures and videos from the HxC Floppy Drive Emulator project

External Reviews / Tests / Articles:

11/14/2006 : ClassicAmiga : HxC Floppy Drive Emulator
08/22/2007 : Reflexmusic : Korg DSS-1 with HxCFloppyEmulator Project
07/30/2009 : Amiga Future : Preview HxC Floppy Emulator
05/01/2010 : Obligement : Matériel : HxC Floppy Emulator (version carte SD) (French)
05/03/2010 : CPCWiki : Guide for HxC SD Version
06/16/2010 : ppa.pl / Strim : HxC Floppy Emulator (Polish)
08/05/2010 : MO5 Le Mag : HxC Floppy Emulator, rejouer à ses vieux jeux sur disquette ! (French)
11/06/2010 : My Diy Blog : HxC for Ensoniq Mirage
11/24/2010 : AmigaX : How works HXC Floppy Emulator in Amiga
12/02/2010 : NightFall Blog : SD HxC Floppy Emulator (REV C)
12/03/2010 : BURNCARS : SD-card HxC Floppy Emulator

01/07/2011 : BURNCARS : Korg DSS-1 Gets New/Cheap Floppy Alternative: Now in SD!
02/01/2011 : Rancho Relaxo : Resurrecting an Ensoniq EPS classic sampler
03/14/2011 : HomeCon : SD HxC Floppy Emulator in einem Amiga 2000 (Deutsh)
03/23/2011 : Retro Computers : The SD Card based HxC Floppy Emulator
04/05/2011 : Audiofanzine/Rosefloyd : Tutoriel : Installation d'un lecteur SD CARD sur la SP 1200 (French)
04/17/2011 : BYTECellar : My SDCard HxC Floppy Emulator Adventure
04/18/2011 : Retro Computers : Another satisfied HxC floppy emulator user!
04/23/2011 : Jim Atwood in Japan : SD Card HxC Floppy Emulator for Roland W-30 S-330 Samplers
05/26/2011 : RetroThing : HxC Universal Floppy Disk Drive Emulator
05/29/2011 : Technabob : HxC SD Card Drive Emulates 3.5" Floppy Disks
05/30/2011 : Korben : Remplacer un lecteur de disquette par un lecteur de carte SD
05/31/2011 : Tom's Hardware : Un lecteur de cartes SD en interface disquette
06/08/2011 : HxC????????????

 

Videos:

03-18-2008: A video report about the HxC Floppy Emulator project made by the NoLife television channel ! ;-) (in french)

reportage sur NoLife !


03-18-2008: A video report about the HxC Floppy Emulator project made by the NoLife television channel ! ;-) (in french)

Video demonstration of the SDCard based HxC Floppy Emulator on Atari STE.

Video demonstration of the SDCard based HxC Floppy Emulator on Amiga.

 

Video demonstration of the SDCard based HxC Floppy Emulator on Amstrad CPC

 

Video demonstration of the SDCard based HxC Floppy Emulator image manager on Atari STE

USB HxC Floppy Emulator video demo - part 1 (part 2 on the right)

USB HxC Floppy Emulator video demo - part 2 (part 1 on the left)

Ensoniq EPS 16+ HxC SD FloppyEmu / Waveboy™ Demosong

 

Video demonstration of the SDCard based HxC Floppy Emulator on Ensoniq EPS16+

HxC Floppy Emulator on Ensoniq Mirage

Replace Ensoniq EPS Disk Drive with HxC Flopy Emulator

Oberheim DPX-1 and HxC floppy emulator

Korg DSS-1 Gets A Floppy Upgrade

The SD HxC in the E-Mu Emulator-I and Emulator-II

KryoFlux and HxC in action on the Emulator-I

 

Video demonstration of the SDCard based HxC Floppy Emulator on TI99/4A

USB HxC Floppy Emulator on TI99/4A video review

TRS-80 Model 4P and floppy emulator

USB HxC Floppy Emulator on MSX

HxC Floppy Emulator am CPC464

USB HxC Floppy Emulator on CPC

Oric Atmos with Cumana floppy controller and HxC Floppy emulator

SDCard HxC Floppy Emulator

The very first Amiga 600 HxC SD

Amiga 600 HxC (Part 2)

A600+HxC SD Floppy Emulator inside...

HXC Floppy Emulator Amiga 500

A600 running Kickstart 1.3 + Game via HxC SD Floppy Emulator

HxC Floppy Drive Emulator in Custom Enclosure on Amiga A600


SDCard HxC Floppy Emulator Pictures:


Late 2007 a new direction was taken to make a low cost standalone floppy emulator. The SDCard HxC Floppy Emulator is mostly based on a low cost PIC18F MCU, an SDCard connector, 3 push buttons, a low cost alphanumerical HD44780 compatible LCD (it will be optional in the future) and some floppy line drivers.
Although this emulator still in prototype/development state, some people have already made their SDCard HxC Floppy Emulator with informations available on the project page.


03/10/2010: The SDCard HxC Floppy Emulator is available for sale !


03/10/2010: The SDCard HxC Floppy Emulator is available for sale !

The SDCard HxC Floppy Emulator on Atari STE.


03/10/2010: The SDCard HxC Floppy Emulator is available for sale !


SDCard HxC Floppy Emulator on Atari STE.


An SDCard HxC Floppy Emulator in a nice form factor.

(Note: the pcb of this version was made by Pryanick.)

12/22/2007: The SDCard HxC Floppy Emulator is born ;-).


The SDCard HxC Floppy Emulator on Amiga 600 running the Arte Demo.


04/05/2007 : Some experimentations in order to make a standalone/sdcard version.
here a working version based on an FPGA.


08/29/2007: And here an MCU (LPC2106) based floppy emulator done by Torlus (http://www.torlus.com/index.php?2007/08/29/203-mcu-based-floppy-drive-emulator).

 

USB HxC Floppy Emulator Pictures:


After the first prototype, it is becoming interesting to reduce it and change the parralel port link by a modern USB link.
The main idea is kept (use of a PC as a floppy images server) but all TTL logic was put into an CPLD and the parralel port interface was replaced by a USB interface.
After the first success with this prototype, a single layer PCB (called "homebrew PCB") and later a two side PCB (called "production PCB") was made.
Since the availibilty of the schematic and PCB layout more than one hundred units was made by some people (especially Giants, CrazyIceCap and Petersieg).


A USB HxC Floppy Emulator inside an Amiga 600.

The USB HxC Floppy Emulator as an external drive (hooked to an Amiga 500).


The USB HxC Floppy Emulator was made in different colors.


A USB HxC Floppy Emulator hooked to a UFO Super Drive Pro
(Snes / Super Famicon cardridge duplicator).

A factory of USB HxC Floppy Emulator ;-).

Another one. ;-)


A "production" USB HxC Floppy Emulator PCB.


A "homebrew" USB HxC Floppy Emulator PCB.

A "production" USB HxC Floppy Emulator.

Another one.


A homebrew USB HxC Floppy Emulator.


Another one.

A USB HxC Floppy Emulator hooked to a Super Wildcard DX-SWC3201
(Snes / Super Famicon cardridge duplicator)

A USB HxC Floppy Emulator on an Atari Falcon.

The classic configuration : a floppy image server (the PC laptop), the USB HxC Floppy Emulator board on the middle, and the target computer (Amiga 600 here).


In this configuration the floppy server is a GP2X game system !.
Nice port by Ingo Arndt (scachi).


A homebrew USB HxC Floppy Emulator on a Korg DSS 1.
Tested by Tobias : http://www.reflexmusic.de/DSS-1/


A homebrew USB HxC Floppy Emulator with a standard PC.


A homebrew USB HxC Floppy Emulator with an CPC6128.

A homebrew USB HxC Floppy Emulator with an CPC6128 running Xenon.



The USB HxC Floppy Emulator prototype with an Amiga 500.


The USB HxC Floppy Emulator prototype with an Atari STE running Turrican .



The prototype USB HxC Floppy Emulator.


The USB HxC Floppy Emulator prototype on Atari STE running Prince Of Persia .


 


Early 2006: The very first prototype of the HxC Floppy Emulator was made:
it was based on TTL logic only (no MCU or CPLD) and used the parallel port to get floppy data from the PC.


the very first prototype on Amiga 600 running Shadow on the Beast III .


the very first prototype hooked to an Atari STE running Crazy Cars III .


the very first prototype with an Atari STE running Another World .


the very first prototype :
100% TTL based and parallel port ;-)

 

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