Suggestions about the HxC Floppy Emulator

[galine]

My contact (Alex) who try HXC on X68000 must use ram disk this seting is accessible to switch.x command under human OS but for that the machine must have ram expand. Unlucky I haven't recive yet my sub D37 for make my try and I haven't yet test the HXC directely instead of internal 5"1/4 floppy drive.

I think is it cause Alex coppy all the image on to it I don't know exactely why

An exemple of uses report from Alex the game is final fight

"Video Output: 15Khz and 31khz via Option Menu

X68000 RAM Required = 4MB or More.

X68000 Compact XVI and HXCSD as FD0(A: ) Boot and RUN = YES, First (ffight1.hfe Loading time 02mins:50secs) when copy files is done you need to switch to (ffight2.hfe) and Press any key to continue the last part of copy files to RAMDISK.

X68000 Compact XVI and HXCSD as FD2(C: ) Boot and RUN = YES, Loading time ?

X68000 Compact XVI HDD Boot (A: ) and RUN (B: ) = YES, Loading time using External SCSI HDD (Human Ver3.02) and booting from HXCSD (b: ) = ?

X68030 HDD Boot (A: ) and RUN (D: ) = YES, Loading time using External SCSI HDD (Human Ver3.02) and booting from HXCSD (d: ) = ?

X68030 and HXCSD as FD2(C: ) Boot and RUN = NOP

X68030 and HXCSD as FD0(A: ) Boot and RUN = NOP, Tested but Not Working (Problems with "M2.x" Music Driver)




Keyboard Control:
Player 1 = U+H+K+M + XF1 + XF2
Player 2 = Numeric Keys + Cursor LEFT + Cursor RIGHT


PAUSE = ESC key "

[Jeff]

I don't have any x68000 computer so i cannot try this.
I don't know what happen.
Try to contact Torlus for this.

[microbee]

Hi Guys,

I'm very keen on purchasing one of these, I have an Amiga 600, and ATARI ST to try it out on, but prominently I'd like to use it on my (Australian built) Microbees, 3.5" and 5.25".

From the spec's I've read the microbee floppy emulation shouldn't be a problem, but I'm wondering if the HxC could be easily adapted to replace the 10MB TEAC Hard Drives, (SD-510) and possibly similar vintage Seagate (ST-225) 20MB drives etc.

Is this a likely possibility? If so, I'll order more than 1!
Obviously for these applications, the HxCSD model would be most suitable.

David.

[Jeff]

Hi Guys,

I'm very keen on purchasing one of these, I have an Amiga 600, and ATARI ST to try it out on, but prominently I'd like to use it on my (Australian built) Microbees, 3.5" and 5.25".

From the spec's I've read the microbee floppy emulation shouldn't be a problem, but I'm wondering if the HxC could be easily adapted to replace the 10MB TEAC Hard Drives, (SD-510) and possibly similar vintage Seagate (ST-225) 20MB drives etc.

Is this a likely possibility? If so, I'll order more than 1!
Obviously for these applications, the HxCSD model would be most suitable.

David.

Regarding the MFM hard disk support, this is not possible: MFM hard disk use a 5MBits/s MFM encoding. Floppy disk drive use a 250Kbits/s or 500kbits/s MFM stream.

About the microbee what is the common image file format used with this computer ?

[microbee]

Thanks Jeff,

The microbee, and it's associated emulators commonly use the "CPC-EMU DSK image format."

this is taken from my /usr/local/share/diskdefs

# Microbee 1/4 10MB HDD Partition (2.5MB system partition) (305 Cylinders, 4 heads, 17 s/t 512 b/s)
diskdef mb_hdd_syst
seclen 512
tracks 305
sectrk 17
blocksize 4096
maxdir 512
skew 1
boottrk 2
os 2.2
end

# Microbee 1/4 10MB HDD Partition (2.5MB data partitions) (305 Cylinders, 4 heads, 17 s/t 512 b/s)
diskdef mb_hdd_data
seclen 512
tracks 305
sectrk 17
blocksize 4096
maxdir 512
skew 1
boottrk 0
os 2.2
end

diskdef ds40
seclen 512
tracks 80
sectrk 10
blocksize 2048
maxdir 128
skew 3
offset 2
boottrk 2
os 2.2
end

# Microbee 3.5" CIAB SS80 (3.5" SS DD 80T 10x512 s/t)
diskdef ss80
seclen 512
tracks 80
sectrk 10
blocksize 2048
maxdir 128
skew 3
offset 2
boottrk 2
os 2.2
end

# Microbee 3.5" Modular DS80 (3.5" DS DD 80T 10x512 s/t)
# !!! The offset really should be 22 but this will not work, should
# not make any differences for raw disk image access.
diskdef ds80
seclen 512
tracks 160
sectrk 10
blocksize 4096
maxdir 128
skew 3
offset 2
boottrk 4
os 2.2
end

# Microbee 3.5" Dreamdisk DS82 (3.5" DS DD 80T 10x512 s/t)
diskdef ds82
seclen 512
tracks 160
sectrk 10
blocksize 2048
maxdir 256
skew 3
offset 2
boottrk 2
os 2.2
end

# Microbee 3.5" PJB DS84 (3.5" DS DD 80T 10x512 s/t)
diskdef ds84
seclen 512
tracks 160
sectrk 10
blocksize 4096
maxdir 128
skew 3
offset 2
boottrk 2
os 2.2
end

[Jeff]

Thanks Jeff,

The microbee, and it's associated emulators commonly use the "CPC-EMU DSK image format."

ok so it's already supported by the emulator.

[microbee]

Thanks Jeff,

The microbee, and it's associated emulators commonly use the "CPC-EMU DSK image format."

ok so it's already supported by the emulator.

OK, thanks.. what other formats does it support?
I presume it may be able to handle raw images also.
Does it support IMD images?

Thanks,

David.

[Jeff]

Thanks Jeff,

The microbee, and it's associated emulators commonly use the "CPC-EMU DSK image format."

ok so it's already supported by the emulator.

OK, thanks.. what other formats does it support?
I presume it may be able to handle raw images also.
Does it support IMD images?

Thanks,

David.

Yes

Have a look here :
https://hxc2001.com/floppy_drive_emulat ... SSUPPORTED