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# Arduino Powered Floppy Disk Reader and Writer
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Created by Robert Smith @RobSmithDev
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with interfaces for Amiga, ATARI ST and DOS/PC Disk formats.
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...with interfaces for Amiga, ATARI ST and DOS/PC Disk formats
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# What is it?
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This project uses an Arduino to interface with a floppy disk drive and
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communicate with a PC in order to recover the data from any formatted
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disks. The drive can be either a 8", 5 1/4" or 3 1/2" standard floppy drive.
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disks.
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The drive can be either a 8", 5 1/4" or 3 1/2" standard floppy drive.
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It was tested on a 3 1/2" standard PC floppy drive. Others (like the
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5 1/4" standard PC floppy drive) my also work without modifications.
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It also allows you to write a backed up ADF file back onto a floppy disk!
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# ArduinoFloppyReader
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This Visual Studio 2017 project contains two applications, a command line,
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and a Windows dialog based application
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This Visual Studio 2019 project contains two applications, a command line,
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and a Windows dialog based application allow reading and writing of Amiga
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formatted DD floppy disks.
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# Scripts for linux
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The ATARI ST and DOS/PC floppy formats can be decoded whith these scripts.
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9,10,11 or 18 Sectors per track. Up to 82 tracks, DD (ca. 800 kBytes) or
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HD (1.4 MBytes). The images usually contain a FAT12 file system which can be
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directly mounted by linuy without any additional driver.
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Sorry, no interface to WINDOWS yet.
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The above application apparently works under WINE, however,
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Github user "kollokollo" made some scripts for reading other formats on Linux
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too as follows:
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The ATARI ST and DOS/PC floppy formats can be decoded whith these scripts.
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9,10,11 or 18 Sectors per track. Up to 82 tracks, DD (ca. 800 kBytes) or
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HD (1.4 MBytes). The images usually contain a FAT12 file system which can be
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directly mounted by linuy without any additional driver.
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For more information see
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https://github.com/kollokollo/ArduinoFloppyDiskReader/tree/new/for_linux
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They need the X11-Basic interpreter from http://x11-basic.sourceforge.net/
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# Commodore 1581 Disks
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To read commodore 1581 disks, check out the project at:
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https://github.com/hpingel/pyAccess1581
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# FloppyDriverController.sketch
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This is the Ardunio source code/sketch for all Floppy formats.
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* Detect disk density (SD/DD or HD)
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* Motor ON/OFF
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* Seek to Track 0
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* Seek to any track (up to 82)
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* Seek to any track (up to 82 - be careful, this can damage some drives!)
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* read write protection status
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* Read index pulse
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* read raw track data (FM, MFM; SD, DD or HD)
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* write track data (unbuffered, only DD yet)
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* read raw track data (its, RAW, so FM, MFM; SD, DD or HD)
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* write track data (unbuffered, DD, untested HD)
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# AVR Firmware
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# Help and Instructions
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For further details including how to wire this up please visit
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[http://amiga.robsmithdev.co.uk]
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[https://amiga.robsmithdev.co.uk]
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# Whats changed?
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V2.2 Fixed 99% of checksum errors when writing by erasing the track first
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V2.1 Diagnostics and potential write bug fixed
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V2.0 Disk reading has been vastly improved and you can now also write disks!
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V1.0 Initial release, can read disks fairly well
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v2.4 Improved support for Usb to Serial devices based on findings from GitHub user "prickle" - firmware is now V1.7
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v2.33 Merged with Pull Request #9 (Detect and read out HD floppy disks 1.44M by kollokollo) - firmware is now V1.6
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v2.32 Merged with Pull Request #6 (Modified the behavior of the current track location on Arduino boot - paulofduarte) which also addresses issues with some drives and updated firmware to 1.4
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Made a small change to the diagnostics code to also erase the track before writing it
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v2.31 Upgraded the PC code side to work with Visual Studio 2019 resolving issue #11 (ourIThome) and merging pull request #13 (bassclefstudio)
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Fixed a few typos in ArduinoInterface.cpp from pull request #12 (Crkk)
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V2.2 Fixed 99% of checksum errors when writing by erasing the track first
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V2.1 Diagnostics and potential write bug fixed
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V2.0 Disk reading has been vastly improved and you can now also write disks!
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V1.0 Initial release, can read disks fairly well
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# Licence
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This entire project is available under the GNU General Public License v3
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licence. See licence.txt for more details.
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‎readme.md

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# Arduino Powered Floppy Disk Reader and Writer
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Created by Robert Smith @RobSmithDev
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with interfaces for Amiga, ATARI ST and DOS/PC Disk formats.
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...with interfaces for Amiga, ATARI ST and DOS/PC Disk formats
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# What is it?
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This project uses an Arduino to interface with a floppy disk drive and
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communicate with a PC in order to recover the data from any formatted
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disks. The drive can be either a 8", 5 1/4" or 3 1/2" standard floppy drive.
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disks.
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The drive can be either a 8", 5 1/4" or 3 1/2" standard floppy drive.
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It was tested on a 3 1/2" standard PC floppy drive. Others (like the
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# ArduinoFloppyReader
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This Visual Studio 2019 project contains two applications, a command line,
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and a Windows dialog based application
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and a Windows dialog based application allow reading and writing of Amiga
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formatted DD floppy disks.
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# Scripts for linux
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The ATARI ST and DOS/PC floppy formats can be decoded whith these scripts.
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9,10,11 or 18 Sectors per track. Up to 82 tracks, DD (ca. 800 kBytes) or
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HD (1.4 MBytes). The images usually contain a FAT12 file system which can be
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directly mounted by linuy without any additional driver.
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The above application apparently works under WINE, however,
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Github user "kollokollo" made some scripts for reading other formats on Linux
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too as follows:
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The ATARI ST and DOS/PC floppy formats can be decoded whith these scripts.
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9,10,11 or 18 Sectors per track. Up to 82 tracks, DD (ca. 800 kBytes) or
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HD (1.4 MBytes). The images usually contain a FAT12 file system which can be
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directly mounted by linuy without any additional driver.
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For more information see
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https://github.com/kollokollo/ArduinoFloppyDiskReader/tree/new/for_linux
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They need the X11-Basic interpreter from http://x11-basic.sourceforge.net/
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# Commodore 1581 Disks
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To read commodore 1581 disks, check out the project at: https://github.com/hpingel/pyAccess1581
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To read commodore 1581 disks, check out the project at:
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https://github.com/hpingel/pyAccess1581
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# FloppyDriverController.sketch
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This is the Ardunio source code/sketch for all Floppy formats.
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* Detect disk density (SD/DD or HD)
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* Motor ON/OFF
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* Seek to Track 0
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* Seek to any track (up to 82)
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* Seek to any track (up to 82 - be careful, this can damage some drives!)
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* read write protection status
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* Read index pulse
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* read raw track data (FM, MFM; SD, DD or HD)
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* read raw track data (its, RAW, so FM, MFM; SD, DD or HD)
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* write track data (unbuffered, DD, untested HD)
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# AVR Firmware

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