RMC - the Cave video on an Amiga floppy disc reader

gimbal · 03 June 2021, 17:52

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Interesting bit of hardware that allows you to read Amiga floppy discs directly from a modern computer. Very nice video that also demonstrates how to use WinUAE with it.

More info at http://amiga.robsmithdev.co.uk/

lesta_smsc · 03 June 2021, 21:10

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Originally Posted by gimbal

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Interesting bit of hardware that allows you to read Amiga floppy discs directly from a modern computer. Very nice video that also demonstrates how to use WinUAE with it.

More info at http://amiga.robsmithdev.co.uk/

Fantastic! I'm sure I requested whether Greaseweazle could be tweaked to allow this. Nice to see its implementation

Wiking67 · 03 June 2021, 21:25

heaveing one of this

hitm4n · 03 June 2021, 21:26

Brilliant, i wanted something like this for many many years... now i don't need it - lol. Really great its been accomplished though, huge benefit for salvaging disks.

lesta_smsc · 03 June 2021, 23:00

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Originally Posted by lesta_smsc

Fantastic! I'm sure I requested whether Greaseweazle could be tweaked to allow this. Nice to see its implementation

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Originally Posted by gimbal

[ Show youtube player ]

Interesting bit of hardware that allows you to read Amiga floppy discs directly from a modern computer. Very nice video that also demonstrates how to use WinUAE with it.

More info at http://amiga.robsmithdev.co.uk/

Fantastic! I'm sure I requested whether Greaseweazle could be tweaked to allow this. Nice to see its implementation

I was hoping current USB floppy drives could have firmware hacked as they run off SMT chipset similar to what is used in Greaseweazle.

However, this uses Arduino.

Great project by @RobSmithDev - who is a fellow Amiga enthusiast from Leicester

RichL · 04 June 2021, 08:00

I’ve put my name down on the waiting list.

I’ve got about 260 blank disks left in a sealed box, now I just need to find someone who sells those disk labels we all uses to buy, they were red, blue, green, yellow lines and the bit that folded round the back of the disk. Can’t find any though

I use a CF card inside an A1200 with WHD, but it will be great to write a few ADFs to use like the old days.

Wiking67 · 04 June 2021, 09:02

https://amigakit.amiga.store/advance...s&currency=GBP

roondar · 04 June 2021, 09:45

Interesting stuff for sure.

RichL · 04 June 2021, 11:03

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Originally Posted by Wiking67

https://amigakit.amiga.store/advance...s&currency=GBP

Bloody hell haha - thanks for that

solarmon · 05 June 2021, 14:07

I've had a play of this and I'm totally amazed at how well it works.

Kudos to Rob Smith (and Keir Fraser for the Greaseweazle side)!

I've tested with my Greaseweazle F1 Plus boards (https://github.com/solarmon/Greaseweazle) and I was able to load AmigaDOS disks fine. And even long track games like Lemmings seems to be OK. But at the moment I can't get Xenon II (1 disk) to load.

Lots more to test and try, but this is a big milestone!

mnemo · 10 June 2021, 21:48

The device itself has been available for some time now. There are also other solutions like ADF-Copy (from a friend of mine).

What's new now are the enhancements to WinUAE and the firmware to support reading the disks DIRECTLY INTO WINUAE. This is quite complicated as is explained on the project's homepage.

RichL · 15 June 2021, 06:33

Yes but I’m no good with a soldering iron so would rather wait for the all in one solution.

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RichL Registered User Join Date: Jul 2020 Location: Birmingham, UK Age: 50 Posts: 202	I’ve put my name down on the waiting list. I’ve got about 260 blank disks left in a sealed box, now I just need to find someone who sells those disk labels we all uses to buy, they were red, blue, green, yellow lines and the bit that folded round the back of the disk. Can’t find any though I use a CF card inside an A1200 with WHD, but it will be great to write a few ADFs to use like the old days.

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roondar Registered User Join Date: Jul 2015 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 3,406	Interesting stuff for sure.

05 June 2021, 14:07	#10
solarmon Registered User Join Date: Dec 2018 Location: UK Posts: 1,715	I've had a play of this and I'm totally amazed at how well it works. Kudos to Rob Smith (and Keir Fraser for the Greaseweazle side)! I've tested with my Greaseweazle F1 Plus boards (https://github.com/solarmon/Greaseweazle) and I was able to load AmigaDOS disks fine. And even long track games like Lemmings seems to be OK. But at the moment I can't get Xenon II (1 disk) to load. Lots more to test and try, but this is a big milestone!

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mnemo MTN/SPT Join Date: Sep 2019 Location: Germany Age: 53 Posts: 60	The device itself has been available for some time now. There are also other solutions like ADF-Copy (from a friend of mine). What's new now are the enhancements to WinUAE and the firmware to support reading the disks DIRECTLY INTO WINUAE. This is quite complicated as is explained on the project's homepage.

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