Hi all,
I have a controller card (i'll elaborate later in the message) for an
ICOM 3712 8" floppy drive unit. However, i do not have an FD3712 system
to interface to it!
With Shugart style floppy emulation essentially a solved problem, i'm
wondering if similar has been done for the FD3712. As the computer side
of the floppy interface is just a parallel interface, and all the disk
geometry wizardry happens on the FD3712, i'd assume a lot of the
difficulty of Shugart floppy emulation is essentially a moot point. So
the question is, is there a project already existent to replace the
FD3712 unit with an emulated (raspberry pi based?) alternative?
I'm asking the question as i have an RCA Microboard bus CDP18S646
combined Centronics Printer interface and FD3712 floppy interface. It
also came with an MBZ80 z80 based CPU card, and i'm putting 2 and 2
together and gathering it was likely the two were used together. If i've
every got a a hope in hell of booting anything, solving the media
problem is quite important.
Cheers,
Josh Rice
