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Real Floppy Drive for V4

Markus B

Posts 209
06 Dec 2020 13:56


Hi,

is it feasable to adopt the work done here: EXTERNAL LINK 
For nostalgic reasons I'd love to be able to boot from a real drive.


Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6254
06 Dec 2020 14:22


Yes a floppy is for nostalgic reason for a few of us really nice.
And we have EXP ports so there are possibilities.




Renaud Schweingruber
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 381
07 Dec 2020 14:33


Our regreted friend Gouky made such thing for another FPGA board :
EXTERNAL LINK 
 
The design is pretty simple so I guess someone motivated could make it happen with the help of Gunnar on the core part.

Who wants to jump in ?


Markus B

Posts 209
08 Dec 2020 13:37


Well, if it can be soldered on a very easy level, I'm happy to assist by putting things together and test whatever needs to be put into the core.

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