Further on the greaseweazle docs - there is a forum at https://github.com/keirf/greaseweazle/discussions which seems quite lively and may be the right place to start.
On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 9:56 AM Adrian Godwin <artgod...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 9:29 AM Tony Duell via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > >> However I am not sure if I'll be able to use it. There is one very >> important thing missing : DOCUMENTATION. The 'wikii' on github is >> ridiculously incomplete. There is no user manual or man pages. The >> software source in python (a language I've never used) has very few >> comments and is not clear at all. >> >> It's not clear to me exactly what all the options are for, and when to >> use them. >> >> -tony >> > > I also got one ion the hope I'd be able to read a 1.44MB dos floppy that > may or may not have some useful software on it. > It installed and ran without issue on Linux but, like Tony, I'm finding > the documentation a bit short. And I don't know much python either though I > do find it fairly readable. > > I have tried the examples that do exist and they work as described. It's > not clear though yet how to proceed though in the simplest case I think it > has provided me with a 1.44MB image of a test floppy. Using it for non-DOS > floppies may be more difficult but the main reason I'm unsure is that it's > fairly quiet about what it does and I don't know yet how much recovery work > it's done unbidden. I do believe the greaseweazle firmware includes some of > the retry mechanism and may 'just work'. Note that the test floppy I'm > using is easily readable. > > However, while I was waiting for the board, I looked around for software > and as well as that recommended by the designer I also found some called > fluxengine. This was written for a different adapter - actually a Cyprus > dev board connected directly to a floppy socket, not a custom board, but it > supports the greaseweazle adapter and only lose part of the functionality. > I haven't investigated the documentation on that yet but it's very well > presented and I have hopes that I wil be able to use it too. I'd recommend > looking at it - it was very little trouble to get working. I didn't try it > on Windows but it has support for that. > https://github.com/davidgiven/fluxengine > > I think there were a couple of recommendations for greaseweazle here so I > guess someone's found it useful before. I'm interested in any hints - if > you send any to tony please cc me. > > Although Tony seems to have resolved his Windows problems, it did occur to > me that this could be paired with a raspberry pi or clone to make a > self-contained device with little cost or effort. > > -adrian >
