Wow, Jim your "about' section on the website is impressive

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What does it mean for general amiga user.. does work with amiga machines or is it pc only? Or is it standalone device? I read it could be a floppy controller on a computer with the upcoming firmware, but it be possible for amiga computers? Would like this on my amigaone..

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seems another mips sympathisant in amiga hardware field.

@noXLar

From looking it seems to be a Windows application, so I would presume it is used primarily on a Windows based machine. It can however archive disks from Apple II, C64/128, Amiga, MSDOS, Atari 800 and Atari ST, so you should be able to make exact images from your old games to a MicroSD card for archival purposes. As such you could then easily use the resulting image within an emulator, or I imagine written back to a real disk using any sector/block transfer program.

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SuperCard Pro can be controlled via USB using PC, Mac, or Linux software. Right now, I only have PC (Windows) software. If someone wants to write the Mac or Linux software, let me know. I use a FTDI USB interface controller which has PC, Mac, and Linux drivers already. You can talk to the SuperCard Pro via the FTDI library or via serial.

SuperCard Pro can also be a stand alone device, controlled via one of the two serial ports. So, it is possible to copy a disk using a Timex Sinclar ZX-81 through serial communications. :)

I made a few last minute changes so that the floppy port is fully bi-directional and the hardware does clocking and DMA transfers of the flux transitions with very little CPU intervention. So, besides copying/imaging disks, it can become a floppy drive emulator. I have not written the firmware to do this yet, but it is coming. This means you could plug it into your Amiga and using the SuperCard Pro's serial port connected to a LCD display (or to your Amiga's serial port or simulated serial port), and you could select flux images from the SD media card, and play games just like they were an original floppy disk.

I am working with Mikej on the FPGA Arcade project. The Amiga core will support the SuperCard Pro flux images, so you can read/write flux level image files created with the SuperCard Pro hardware. At some point, we might integrate accessing the SuperCard Pro's connected floppy drive from the emulation. That remains to be seen. The image file format is public information, and I am making a simple SDK with example code of how to control the board. It has some really basic functions (and a few complex ones) that are passed in as packets, like ReadTrack(), WriteTrack(), StepIn(), StepOut(), StepToTrack(), etc.

It's a neat project that really evolved over the last year.

Jim

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Wow, Jim your "about' section on the website is impressive

Thanks... that's really courtesy of the Amiga. When I designed EMPLANT, I got to be involved with several Hollywood production studios because our system ran the Mac Avid Video Suite way faster than any Mac at the time could, which saved these studios a bunch of money. I did a few custom things here and there and got some movie credits. Fast forward 20 years later and I hook up with Mike and James Cameron... who knew? :)

Okay so amiga drivers are in development for fpga amiga?

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The new 680x0 core for the FPGA Arcade is being tested/debugged right now.

so fpga arcade is getting a real floppy drive..cool:)

I do want one of those fpga arcade, and perhaps your controller, do you belive there will be a driver for os4.1?

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I do not know what OS' will be supported. I am not doing anything with the Amiga side except helping with the low level disk emulation (Paula), and testing.

As the core nears completion, we will all have a better handle on exactly what will work and what won't.

okay, thanks for your answer:)

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Are you also the guy that did PCx?

Yes, along with several other emulations for Amiga and PC.