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It is a very smart device designed by Jean-François DEL NERO. It allows you to emulate any 34-pin floppy disk drive. The SD Card HxC Floppy Emulator can replace different kinds of floppy disk drives and allows you use SD Card media instead of floppy disks. This emulator is actually used with Amiga, Atari, CPC, PC computers, different keyboards and samplers, CNC machine tools, and scientific instruments...

 

Floppy interface:

  • HE10 34-pin floppy connector.
  • Hundreds of computers, keyboards/samplers/synths and CNC machines supported! See the non-exhaustive list on the project website.
  • 3", 3.5", 5.25" and 8" disks emulation supported.
  • Single and Double sided disks supported.
  • FM / SD, MFM / DD or HD densities supported.
  • Bitrate: 125Kb/s, 250Kb/s, 300Kb/s, 500Kb/s.
  • All RPM supported: 300 RPM, 360 RPM, 600 RPM.
  • All sector sizes supported: 128B, 256B, 512B, 1024B, 2048B, 4096B. Mixed sector sizes supported.
  • All track skew and sector interleaving supported.
  • Up to 255 tracks per disk supported.
  • Shugart compatible mode supported.
  • PC compatible mode supported.
  • Two floppy disk drives emulation.

 

Power supply:

  • 5V +/- 10% standard Molex power floppy connector input.

 

User Interface:

  • 3 LEDs ("Power LED", "Floppy access LED", " SD Card access LED").
  • 3 buttons ("Next", "Select/Eject", "Previous").
  • 1 audio transducer.
  • 2*16 chars Alphanumerical LCD.
  • On screen display software for Atari ST, Amstrad CPC and Amiga computers.

 

SD Card support:

  • SD cards up to 2 GB.
  • SDHC cards up to 32 GB.
  • 10 MHz SPI bus mode. Average byte rate: ~500KB/s.

 

SD Card Filesystem

  • FAT32 supported. Subdirectory and long filenames supported.

 

List of supported file images type:

  • ST, MSA, ADF, ADZ, DMS, DMZ, CPC DSK (standard and extended).
  • CopyQM DSK, Oric DSK, IMG, SMC, MSX DSK, IMD, ZX Spectrum DSK, BetaDisk TRD.
  • BetaDisk SCL, Thomson TO8D SAP, Thomson TO8D FD, PC88 D88, x68000 HDM (beta), x68000 XDF (beta), custom raw floppy geometry.
  • An AmigaDOS or FAT12 floppy disk image can also be generated.

 

Read / Write support:

  • Track mode based floppy emulator (Full track pre-encoded in the HFE image file).
  • Read support: Most of existing formats (FM/MFM/Amiga) supported.
  • Custom tracks supported.
  • ISO MFM (DD/HD) & FM (SD) 128/256/512/1024/2048/4096 Bytes sectors write support.
  • Arburg CNC write support.
  • Emu Emulator/SP1200 Write support.
  • Amiga write support.

 

Floppy bitrate supported:

  • 125/250/300 Kbits/s (SD/DD floppies)
  • 500 Kbits/s (HD floppies)
  • others bitrates possible

 

Note: Variable bitrate not supported, so protected floppy disk image (IPF and STX file format) file support will be only partial! If you are looking for a device supporting IPF / STX, please a have a look at the USB HxC Floppy Emulator device in our other items.