The HxC Floppy Drive Emulator is a software and hardware system created by jfdn aka Jeff.

The aim of this project is to replace the floppy disk drive by an electronic device emulating the floppy disk drive (list of supported Computer/Hardware).

There are two differents emulators:

• A USB version which allows to connect the floppy disk drive interface of the computer to a PC via a USB cable.
• A SDCARD version which allows to emulate floppy disks which images are stored in a SDCARD.

Firmware SD HxCFloppyEmulator v1.7.1.2:

• Drive A <> Drive B constant polling issue corrected (Atari ST).
• Better SD Card error handling.

Firmware SD HxCFloppyEmulator v1.7.1.1:

• New embedded setting menu : To access this menu remove the SDCard and press the select button.
  • By this menu you can:
  • Change the floppy Interface mode.
  • Change the bitrate.
  • Change the track step mode.
  • Enable/disable the drive B.
  • Enable/disable the step sound.
  • Set the user interface sound volume.
  • Set the backlight timing.
  • Set the standby timing.
  • Check the software and bootloader version (integrity test included).
  • Clear/reset the settings and reset the Emulator.
  • Exit this menu…

• SD Card: Issue with some sd card corrected : Incompatibility with some SD chipset corrected.
• Write support: Timing for MFM / FM 250/300/500KBits/s write support readjusted. DataMark supported : 0xFB,0xF8 (deleted data mark), 0xFA,0xF9. HFE file format enhanced : Track 0 Side 0 & Track 0 Side 1 track write mode can be different from the others tracks.
• New track seek algorithm: Faster track seek/settle time -> Faster Loading time !
• Flip disk function: the disk image can now be flipped (reverse side 0side 1).
• Bad track number at power up corrected (E-mu Emulator I/II, SP1200, Linn/Forat 9000…)
• Experimental “Rev2″ HFE support : Correct some issue with some Amiga games/demos.
• Lots of internals code optimization…

 Download:

• HxC Floppy Emulator Firmware v1.7.1.2 (1175)
• HxC Floppy Emulator Manager (1049)

source: hxc2001.free.fr