USB HxC Emulation working for Cromemco 5.25 and 8 inch

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USB HxC Emulation working for Cromemco 5.25 and 8 inch

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The great news for me is that I now have USB HxC floppy emulation working for Cromemco computers both 5.25 and 8 inch

First I learnt that the USB HxC is only read only

Then I found that all the debugging (trying to get read/write working) had resulted in a critical wire coming loose.

There is the hardware mod that ties the READY line of the 2 different parts 5.25" and 8" of the controller together so that you then need only
use the 34 pin J2 connector of the Cromemco 64 FDC Disk Controller for all emulated drives

Example Working
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cdoscopy -l sfda
basic.com          19K
batch.com           2K
boot0020.sys        7K
dosmin32.sys        7K
dosmin48.sys        7K
edit.com            6K
init.com            1K
rdos.com            5K
stat.com            2K
wrtsys.com          1K
xfer.com            2K

And for 8" Diskette
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 cdoscopy -l fda
64kz.com            4K
64s.com             4K
68kmemt.com        14K
asm22.com          10K
asmb.com           14K
asmlib.rel          2K
b1.sbr              4K
b2.sbr              4K
b3.sbr              8K
b4.sbr              4K
b5.sbr             10K
basic.com          20K
basicgen.com       12K
baslib.sbr          4K
budget.asc         12K
c1.sbr              2K
c2.sbr              8K
c2a.sbr             2K
c3.sbr              4K
c3a.sbr             6K
c4.sbr              6K
c5.sbr              4K
c6.sbr              2K
c7.sbr              2K
c8.sbr              2K
c9.sbr              2K
c9a.sbr             2K
c9b.sbr             2K
cc201282.com       16K
cc201282.doc        2K
cdos.com           14K
cdosgen.com        34K
cdosorg.com        14K
cds.doc             2K
cl201282.com       14K
cl201282.doc        2K
coblib.rel         24K
cobol.com          32K
conproc.com         4K
cref.com            4K
crtgen.com          4K
crthdt.com          2K
cturbo.com         34K
ddt22.com           6K
debug.com          10K
debug1.com          8K
defistel.rel        2K
diskcopy.com       12K
diskdiag.com       24K
document.doc        2K
dosmin64.sys        8K
dump.com            4K
dump22.com          2K
ed22.com            8K
edit.com            8K
f80.com            26K
fcall.z80           2K
for.com            26K
forlib.rel         24K
forlib22.rel       24K
format.com          8K
fsort.lis           4K
hdt3101.com        20K
hdtadm3.com        20K
hdtest.com         18K
init.com           12K
ksamut.com         14K
l80.com            10K
lib.com             6K
libbuild.lis       18K
link.com            8K
linkasm.com         6K
load.com            4K
m80.com            18K
mbasic.com         24K
mcal.com           20K
memtest.com         2K
memtest8.com        4K
memtst8.com         4K
memtstc.com         4K
ovrly1.ovr          8K
ovrly2.ovr         12K
ovrly3.ovr         12K
ovrly4.ovr          2K
print.com           2K
rdos.com            6K
sbasic.com         32K
sbasic.sbr          2K
sbasicio.sbr        2K
sbasicio.z80       26K
screen.com         12K
sditest.com         8K
sort.com           42K
stat.com           10K
stdex.com          16K
translat.com        4K
witoh.com          16K
wrtsys.com          2K
wsmsgs.ovr         28K
wsovly1.ovr        34K
xfer.com            8K
xpuinit.com        12K

I also found that the documentation on the READY modification was unclear so that and articles relating to HxC and 8" conversion are now updated also here

https://smpl.fyi/2021/06/cromemco-ready/

https://smpl.fyi/2014/04/the-hxc-solid- ... -emulator/

https://smpl.fyi/2009/04/converting-fro ... ch-floppy/

Last Words
The Cromemco repository of documentation and disk images including .HFE HxC format is now stored in a Github and access is via first joining the Cromemco Google group, asking for Gihub access and then accepting the conditions.

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