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Re: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] Re: Floppy Emulator

2014-01-22 by Rish

Actually you could store more data than 720k but it would require a FDC controller chip swap and depending on how high you want to go...maybe a tweak to the firmware. All of which I have done in the past

Rish

Life is like MIDI, your either IN, OUT or THRU.


> On Jan 22, 2014, at 3:50 PM, <yveco44@...> wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone, 
> 
> Indeed, on the emulator, each image can not contain more information than a physical disk. 
> 
> SD card 256 MB, I can store the equivalent of 130 floppy disk 3.5 "720 KB 
> 
> The advantage is that this type of support is less bulky, more recent, more flexible and more reliable than floppy disks with mechanical moving parts, and therefore fragile.
> 
> You can not store an image in more information than a floppy disk. 
> 
> Good evening. 
> 
> YVECO44
> 
>

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