[cctalk] Re: Greaseweazle part 2

2023-11-01 Thread Adrian Godwin via cctalk
I should say that that's actually the Fluxengine software in combination with the Greaseweazle hardware. On Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 11:19 AM Adrian Godwin wrote: > An interesting update on greaseweazle. As I understand this it now > supports LIF at the file level as well as at the disc format

[cctalk] Re: Greaseweazle part 2

2023-11-01 Thread Adrian Godwin via cctalk
An interesting update on greaseweazle. As I understand this it now supports LIF at the file level as well as at the disc format level. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OLdqJqJ490 On Sun, Jun 25, 2023 at 9:43 AM Tony Duell via cctalk wrote: > On Sun, Jun 25, 2023 at 8:31 AM r.stricklin via

[cctalk] Re: Greaseweazle part 2

2023-06-25 Thread Tony Duell via cctalk
On Sun, Jun 25, 2023 at 8:31 AM r.stricklin via cctalk wrote: > > > > On Jun 24, 2023, at 11:10 PM, Tony Duell via cctalk > > wrote: > > > > And this is where I get lost.. > > > > I do not understand your overbearing attitude of helplessness toward this > project. I have known you on many

[cctalk] Re: Greaseweazle part 2

2023-06-25 Thread r.stricklin via cctalk
> On Jun 24, 2023, at 11:10 PM, Tony Duell via cctalk > wrote: > > And this is where I get lost.. > I do not understand your overbearing attitude of helplessness toward this project. I have known you on many occasions to go to far greater lengths to achieve far deeper understanding of far

[cctalk] Re: Greaseweazle part 2

2023-06-25 Thread Tony Duell via cctalk
Still trying to make sense of this thing. The problem is that one very important thing is missing. I refer to DODUMENTATION. I don't fall for this modern rubbish that a product with a thin manual is easy to use. No, the thicker the manual the better. It will probablt answr my questions. But the

[cctalk] Re: Greaseweazle part 2

2023-06-12 Thread Peter Corlett via cctalk
On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 09:21:52AM -0600, ben via cctalk wrote: [...] > I would of thought the AMIGA would have a say here, as it reads a disk > track as just a bunch of flux transitions. The Amiga has a choice of two fixed clock rates, both of which happen to correspond with common DD disk

[cctalk] Re: Greaseweazle part 2

2023-06-12 Thread Tony Duell via cctalk
On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 7:08 AM Tom Hunter via cctalk wrote: > > Is it really necessary to be always so confrontational? It is unpleasant. Could you please indicate exactly which statement in my original message you object to? [And please don't top-post. It's annoying] -tony > > On Sun, 11

[cctalk] Re: Greaseweazle part 2

2023-06-12 Thread Martin Bishop via cctalk
@classiccmp.org] Sent: 12 June 2023 07:08 To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Cc: Tom Hunter Subject: [cctalk] Re: Greaseweazle part 2 Is it really necessary to be always so confrontational? It is unpleasant. On Sun, 11 June 2023, 10:44 pm Tony Duell via cctalk, wrote

[cctalk] Re: Greaseweazle part 2

2023-06-12 Thread Tom Hunter via cctalk
Is it really necessary to be always so confrontational? It is unpleasant. On Sun, 11 June 2023, 10:44 pm Tony Duell via cctalk, wrote: > > Fundamentally, it seems to me that they're all the same basic hardware, > > timing intervals between flux transitions. > > > > So other than the soaftware,

[cctalk] Re: Greaseweazle part 2

2023-06-11 Thread Adrian Godwin via cctalk
I would have liked to find that comparison site earlier. However I think I'd still have gone for greaseweazle. On Sun, 11 Jun 2023, 09:29 Tony Duell via cctalk, wrote: > Well, I've got the Greaseweazle software to run, but I don't know why, > which is hardly encouraging. > > Installing various

[cctalk] Re: Greaseweazle part 2

2023-06-11 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 6/11/23 08:21, ben via cctalk wrote: > I would of thought the AMIGA would have a say here, > as it reads a disk track as just a bunch of flux transitions. Other than the FBGA-equipped ones (e.g. Catweasel Mk 3-4) and a few others, all basically use the same "timer capture" facility in all but

[cctalk] Re: Greaseweazle part 2

2023-06-11 Thread ben via cctalk
On 2023-06-11 8:44 a.m., Tony Duell via cctalk wrote: Fundamentally, it seems to me that they're all the same basic hardware, timing intervals between flux transitions. So other than the soaftware, what's the difference? I could make a stupid comment and ask 'what's the difference between a

[cctalk] Re: Greaseweazle part 2

2023-06-11 Thread Tony Duell via cctalk
> Fundamentally, it seems to me that they're all the same basic hardware, > timing intervals between flux transitions. > > So other than the soaftware, what's the difference? I could make a stupid comment and ask 'what's the difference between a PDP8, PDP11, PERQ or HP9830?'. Apart from having

[cctalk] Re: Greaseweazle part 2

2023-06-11 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 6/11/23 02:29, Adrian Godwin via cctalk wrote: > Sorry to drip-feed this, but > https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Rescuing_Floppy_Disks is a useful > source on comparing various methods. It's clear that this type of interface > has particularly strong support on Apple due to their previous

[cctalk] Re: Greaseweazle part 2

2023-06-11 Thread Adrian Godwin via cctalk
Sorry to drip-feed this, but https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Rescuing_Floppy_Disks is a useful source on comparing various methods. It's clear that this type of interface has particularly strong support on Apple due to their previous use of non-IBM formats, and Amiga is also quite common (I

[cctalk] Re: Greaseweazle part 2

2023-06-11 Thread Adrian Godwin via cctalk
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 wrote: > On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 9:29 AM Tony Duell via cctalk < >

[cctalk] Re: Greaseweazle part 2

2023-06-11 Thread Adrian Godwin via cctalk
On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 9:29 AM Tony Duell via cctalk 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