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Re: [emulatorII-list] Re: USB floppy emulator for the EII.

2010-10-07 by WT

Sweeet !

WT

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "winterhuette" <wintermute303@...>
To: <emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 9:05 PM
Subject: [emulatorII-list] Re: USB floppy emulator for the EII.


>I am pleased to announce that the first EII disk has been dumped 
>successfully by the KryoFlux team! Finally EII can be brought back to this 
>millenium!
>
> --- In emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com, "winterhuette" <wintermute303@...> 
> wrote:
>>
>> I will definitely take care about the enclosure as soon as everything is 
>> ready and we did some testing :)
>>
>> --- In emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com, "esynthesist" <esynthesist@> 
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > I think they will succeed.
>> >
>> > Here's the latest quote from Jeff, the guy behind the HxC (see HxC 
>> > forum):
>> >
>> > "EII support is on the way. The encoding scheme used by the EII is FM.
>> > Almost all the track format is now know thanks to the KryoFlux team 
>> > Wink (sync, sector id , data ,crc...)"
>> >
>> > KryoFlux reverse engineered the disk format by disassembling and 
>> > investigating the Debug ROM of the EII (which contains code to format, 
>> > read and write EII disk tracks). A member of this Yahoo group and 
>> > eiiiforum triggered the HxC team to start up this EII work (thanks 
>> > wintermute!).
>> >
>> > After the HxC team has succeeded in upgrading their device for the EII, 
>> > I also hope someone will succeed in adapting the device in a way that 
>> > it fits nicely in a 5.25 replacement bay, with the LCD display and 
>> > buttons on the front panel. A bit like the custom built one in the DPX 
>> > shown on youtube:
>> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G9UBxyhbOU
>> >
>> > ///E-Synthesist
>> >
>> > --- In emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com, "Gil" <gilwe@> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Just a message to that company guys - WE ARE VERY INTERESTED !!! 
>> > > PLEASE KEEP ON :))
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > --- In emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com, "elmbeatz" <elmbeatz@> wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > I'm sweating....
>> > > >
>> > >
>> >
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