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.

Download:

• HxC Floppy Emulator Firmware v1.8.2.24 (1104)

Firmware SD HxCFloppyEmulator v1.8.2.24:

• Write Support completely redesigned / reworked :
  • Low level track format support added!
  • The host computer/machine can now do low level format of the disk images !
  • By this way the floppy disk image can be formatted with the right disk layout from the machine.
  • All the tracks parameters used by the machine (sector size, interleave/skew, gap, format value, index mark…)
  • will be written to the virtual disk tracks !
  • By this way the user have just to copy some blank HFE images to the SDCard, and format them with the host machine
  • as with a real floppy disk to make them usable.
  • Some blank disk images with various density will available for download on the HxC2001 website.
  • SD/DD/HD sector write support : all sector sizes are now supported ! : 128B, 256B, 512B, 1024B, 2048B, 4096B, 8192B…

• Unaligned track/sector write is now possible :
  • Sectors of host formatted images and images imported from stream files (Kryoflux…) can now be written !

• SD Access enhanced : Better handling, track buffer size increased.
• Floppy interface mode enhanced : New Pin02/Pin34 Custom settings.
• Indexed files mode added :
  • File naming convention : DSKXYYYY.HFE with X=A for drive A & X=B for drive B and YYYY=index number.
  • Once the SDCard is in the emulator, the “next” button allows you to select the next file image.
  • Once the last file is reached, the index is set to 0 (DSKA0000.HFE/DSKB0000.HFE).
  • To jump to the first image (DSKA0000.HFE/DSKB0000.HFE) from any index position, you have just to push the “next” button more than one second.
  • To use it, this mode must be enabled into the HXCSDFE.CFG file.
  • This mode was added to offer a compatibility with the Slim version of the HxC Floppy Emulator (no lcd and only one button).

• SDCard file system support enhanced : Now support FAT 12, FAT 16 & FAT 32 formatted SDCard ! Any SDCard size are now supported !
• Direct access mode : New function to get and set easily the current index number in “file selector” & indexed mode.
• Low level LCD routines improved, file name scrolling behaviour changed : pause of ~1s before starting the scrolling.
• Embedded files browser : Files are now filtered : Only HFE files & folders are shown and can be selected.
• Lots of internal code optimizations/improvements and corrections…

source: hxc2001.free.fr