HxC Floppy Drive Emulator

Hey, it the file I gave you during the CEO isn't it ?

Hello guys!

recently I got a microdisc + hxc floppy emulator and it works great !

but i 'm experiencing a very annoying problem in using the converter from .dsk files to .hfe

while converting the .dsk file images found on the internet , there'is not so many problems , the disks in hfe are correctly recognized by the hxe emu. (most of them...) and some ends with track/sector read errors...

so , In oricutron I 've made some new dsk images, working very well in the oricutron emulator.
but after saving the dsk image ( after modifications in oricutron) , and then passing them to the hfe converter
I loose many sectors and tracks ! making hfe image unusable :'(

so on my first try , I found with hex editor of oricutron generated dsk that the inter -sector informations (gaps/synchros..) are not the same , it seems that the CRC for each sector are different !!!

so i fix it for my first test , by changing in hex editor the frame 4E 4E 00 00 00... A1 A1 A1 F8 by 4E 4E 00 00 00 .. A1 A1 A1 FB and i was the happiest man in the world ... but for a short moment only...

Adding more files to a new dsk image....converted it... not working...TRACK/SECTOR READ FAULT ERRORS even after the fix above...

Examining the log of hfe converter:

before fixing with hexed , the converter seems to skip many sectors....
after fixing , ok i got all sectors , but not like in my first test , the track/sector order is scrambled !
(ie Track 0 Sector 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12...17
Track 1 Sector 14,15,16,17,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13
Track 2 Sector 10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9....

I will post tonite (as i am at work right now) the log files & dsk image to make it more evident

So my next test is to generate dsk images with another oric emulator (euphoric) but i m so used to oricutron

please help !
seb (aka psypoker)
Toulouse - France


ps: ignore my poor english

here the log files

but problem solved with opening dsk image with euphoric
making a fresh empty dsk with euphoric in drive B
and COPY A TO B

Pouvez vous poster le dsk en défaut ?

tested on real oric with image copied from this disk to new euphoric disk

still having to do the fix in hexed to make it readable for euphoric ... (replacing A1 A1 A1 FB by A1 A1 A1 F8)
and then this is good for conversion to hfe...

Ok this is a "deleted data" mark issue. i will correct this asap.

great!

whatever , the process is ok but complicated (hexediting , open in euphoric with dosbox environment, copy A to B (B=new disk) but it works and it is the most important for me

thanx for the support

Ok things should be easier now :

http://hxc2001.free.fr/floppy_drive_emu ... t_beta.zip

hello !

just tested ,and i still have to patch the file with A1 A1 A1 F8 -> A1 A1 A1 FB to make a good hfe file

with F8 the log stills show missing sectors

logs please.

hi again

here the files

all is ok here.
Check that you have the v1.6.11.7a !

ok sorry;)

winrar made a subdir , shortcut was for old version lol

nice work thank you so much

Hi,

I have some .DSK Oric floppy disk images that make HxCFloppyEmulator.exe (even v2 Beta) to crash while converting.
Here are two of them in case someone can see what's wrong :
https://www.rapidshare.com/files/2896436297/METEOR.DSK
https://www.rapidshare.com/files/593498502/SOLITRIA.DSK

Regards,

JihemB