Re: Custom floppy reading hardware interface

From: Pete Rittwage <peter_at_rittwage.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 09:50:10 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <61669.10.2.0.168.1390920610.squirrel@rittwage.com>
On Tue, January 28, 2014 9:46 am, Groepaz wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 January 2014, you wrote:
>> On Tue, January 28, 2014 8:02 am, Pete Rittwage wrote:
>> > On Tue, January 28, 2014 1:04 am, Groepaz wrote:
>> >> On Monday 27 January 2014, you wrote:
>> >>> It appears that this is supported on KF for reading. Not writing,
>> yet,
>> >>> though.
>> >>>
>> >>> http://forum.kryoflux.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=135
>> >>
>> >> that is really surprising - even the opensource linux software for
>> >> catweasel
>> >> had write support iirc
>> >
>> > Really, I don't recall the Catweasel being able to do much of
>> anything. I
>> > would really doubt they supported writing this format.
>> >
>> >
>> > -Pete
>>
>> Please forgive, Catweasel fans. I checked the manual and my statement
>> that
>> it "doesn't do much of anything" is misguided.
>>
>> It does read and write a bunch of formats, apparently.  The Mac 400/800
>> disks are not supported for writing, however.
>
> they are since 2009, see
> http://wiki.icomp.de/wiki/Catweasel#Development_snapshot_2 ... also
> karsten
> scheiblers cwtool for linux (the open source one i mentioned) could do it
> even
> earlier (checked again, it can write them since 2006 apparently).
>

Ah, OK... nice.  I was looking at the manual from 2008.

-Pete



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