Given one of my Amigas was ailing in the floppy drive department it seemed a no-brainer to add that machine to those serviced by this disk drive replacement.
The original HxC floppy disk emulator specifically targeted machines like the Amiga 500 when designed. My showpiece machine was now ok, but the problem was simply shifted rather than solved. The 500+ drive was good so I swapped the drives over. However the 500 was showing signs of a failing floppy disk drive: not uncommon for these machines. Technically one is a show model (the 500) and the other is a working "spare" (the 500+) but they both look fine and they both work. What's this got to do with the Amiga 500? As it happens I have two of these computers and love them both. The emulator mounted in an unused SCSI tape drive case The emulator arrived just as you see in the image but I found a case with a PSU for it (Figure 2) and even mounted a FreHD TRS-80 Model III/4 hard drive emulator card above it just to keep it company!įigure 1. My reason for acquiring it was to facilitate easy access to my System 80/TRS-80 Model 1 program collection. The unit supports many disk image formats and a whole range of classic computer makes and models.
For those that aren't familiar with this device, it allows disk images on a SD card to be used to mimic one or two disks in dual floppy disk drives. Terry Stewart's (Tezza's) Projects and Articles (Blog) Blog index and site links The HxC floppy disk drive emulator: A fine replacement for a faulty Amiga 500 disk driveĪ few months ago I purchased a SDCARD HxC floppy disk emulator (Figure 1).
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