![]() If you flash the firmware and add an i2c LCD display you get very close to the full HxC hardware for a fraction of the price. But the creator of the HxC has ported his firmware to the Gotek hardware, and you can buy the firmware upgrade for €10. This is a cheap Chinese device that will emulate a PC style floppy using a USB memory stick. And then I read about the Gotek floppy emulator. But as my project went on, and it looked like I was going to design my own box, I looked at the more ‘kit’ versions. Initially I was going to buy the fully assembled and cased HxC revision C that uses SD cards. Sadly it won’t work with my Commodore PET 8032, as that uses an IEEE488 interface instead of Shugart. I think I may be able to get it working with some on my others with appropriate disk interfaces, but I’m not sure yet (ZX Spectrum 48k, ZX Spectrum 128k, Sinclair QL)? I should be able to use it on all these machines I own: My chosen floppy emulator was the HxC: it seems very well designed, and supports almost any format you can imagine. It will also allow me to transfer files to more modern computers. ![]() ![]() This should be more convenient and reliable than physical disks. The second part of my retro computer “helper” is to be a floppy drive emulator, to load files off a memory card or stick.
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