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You are of course doing things the sensible way - straight through FE is clearly that :D I really should just get a batch file in there.

I tend to make an SCP just out of force of habit for archiving purposes, but I also wasn't completely trusting in fluxengine making SCPs as I haven't really ever used it for that, so I just do the initial dump with the greaseweazle commandline then make a decision about how I'm going to...

Touch wood, everything I've done with the method I outlined above has worked first time. Perhaps I'm lucky or my disks were written by a fairly stable victor! I've not actually tried direct writes of sector images back to disc using the fluxengine software - is that working reasonably well? (The...

It was me that tried with the kryoflux - it really couldn't get them properly. I've now been using a greaseweazle and it manages perfectly. The fluxengine software can decode to sector images. Greaseweazle can also write index aligned SCPs back and they do work on a real V9k. Not bad for a...

Hello, Model 30-286, replaced capacitors in floppy drive, reads disks fine, booting to PC-DOS 7 from XTIDE BIOS enabled IDE HDD, drive heads cleaned with a cleaning disk. Refuses to format anything either 1.44mb or 720k either with its native drive or a gotek+flashfloppy. "invalid media or...

I'm just in the process of stripping one of these down and replacing the electrolytics - low ESR - and semis. It was completely dead, the startup cap was reading 10uF out of circuit when it should have been 100uF. I note there are two small daughter boards - one has a uC3903N and generates the...

I'm sure a fair few are aware of FlashFloppy, the open source firmware for the gotek floppy emulator. Its creator Kier Fraser has pushed out Greaseweazle, which is a flux reader/writer running g on the super-cheap bluepill stm32 board! It reads/writes supercard pro format files at the moment...

There's no magic in his device. This design should do exactly the same and more (and obviously you can extend the firmware to do what you want). I'm not intending to build/sell these these, but everything for these is open, you can order 20pcbs for about $9 including postage. I've just put an...

Hullo, I've been playing with ESP8266 modules (namely the NodeMCU) - lots of people are charging quite a bit of money for wifi modems (e.g. WiModem232, WiFi232). If you're happy to "lash up" you can do it yourself for under £10. If you want to build a standalone one using an ESP-12E modules...

I just thought I'd post my solution to this, but wondered if people had any better ideas. Just acquired two TM100-4's for my Victor (see other threads) - these are double sided which has doubled my storage :D. One of them wasn't playing very nicely at all. A light touch on the heads, however...

Just to keep things up to date here :D I'm going low-level in BBC BASIC (which was my weapon of choice back in the day). Fortunately I found some BIOS documentation so I'm now in a position to read raw sectors from the floppy. Which also means I'm in a position to write them. Which in turn...

Don't know if anyone has any ideas here... I'm trying to bootstrap some form of comms program onto my Victor 9000 under CP/M (I have MS-DOS comms working fine, but you can't copy from dos to CP/M on this system so far as I can tell!) I've found the cp/m-86 kermit archive, but I think I'm going...

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Just by way of introduction as I've posted in another thread. My main interest has been maintaining and tinkering with UK Acorn machines from the 1980s and early 90s, but that doesn't stop me poking at other things (Sinclair, Commodore). My current project has been bringing my rather old Victor...