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stephen-usher / Apricot-Hard-Disk-Interface

An interface board which uses a Raspberry Pi Pico to simulate the Apricot hard drive interface card and hard drive.
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Open jvernet opened 1 year ago

jvernet commented 1 year ago

Hi,

Glad to see new hardware for Apricot. I do not have skill to make these card unfortuntatly. I'm looking for software for Apricot, trying to preserve as much as possible. I see the HD Disk Images, but there are not working with QDAE , the Apricot Emulator. Can you share the source of the software you put in these disk images ? There is interesting things in it.

Thanks in advance.

stephen-usher commented 1 year ago

All the floppy images I used are from here:

http://actapricot.org/disks/aprid5ks.htm

Unfortunately there are no complete sets of install media for the F Series or GEM for the Portable/FP.

The hard drive images themselves are literally a byte for byte image of a hard drive so unless QDAE supports the emulation of the hard drive interface and uses raw images they'll not work.

As for the hard drive card, the "Gerber" files can be uploaded to a PCB manufacturer such as PCBway and they can make them. The only real difficulty you would have would be programming the GAL chips if you don't have the equipment as everything else is "through-hole" components which are relatively easy to solder (and obtain).

Steve