SDrive-MAX vs SIO2PC?

[Eric Badger]

I have my custom Atari drive emulator running over a 16ft RJ-45 cable with no problem.

 

IMG_4626.HEIC

[_The Doctor__]

The Forum and most laptop's and pc's do not have HEIC file abilities, perhaps convert to another format so all can view your pictures? 1.2 MB ginormous

[bfollowell]

1 hour ago, _The Doctor__ said:

1.2 MB ginormous

Yeah, and that's as an HEIC file. A corresponding JPG would be considerably larger. Say what you will about HEIC, it does have a great compression algorithm. Heck, if it were accepted in more than just the Apple playground, I'd consider switching to it. As it is, that's the first thing I switch off whenever I get a new iOS device.

[+Larry]

Comes up fine on my Android phone.

 

@Eric Badger Can you tell us some more about custom emulator?  What software are you using?

[SviRu]

Tested SIO2PC USB and it is not working on my 3m cable. Very  thick and stron cable. Intresting.

[Eric Badger]

3 hours ago, Larry said:

Comes up fine on my Android phone.

 

@Eric Badger Can you tell us some more about custom emulator?  What software are you using?

Sure!  It's an extension of another project that I've been working on for some time which is documented here: 

 

 

The LodeRunner box project uses a Raspberry PI Pico - It supports VGA output and PS/2 keyboard input.

I built the Atari drive emulation on top of that platform.

 

In addition to that, and for the drive emulation, I've added an SD card and an RJ-45 port.

The SD card uses the FatFS  project to read and write from SD. https://github.com/carlk3/FreeRTOS-FAT-CLI-for-RPi-Pico

 

The RJ-45 port is not used for network, but rather for GPIO because the network cables are literally everywhere.  

I built a little PCB to break out the RJ-45 and 3d printed a case for the plugs - added the molex pins and soldered and assembled.

 

I built a DOS like VGA looking UI for navigating the SD card. 

 

The drive emulation is completely original and written in C++ based on this spec:

SIOspecs.pdf (archive.org) -  The drive emulator supports single density, enhanced density and double density ATR files.

I'm still trying to figure out how to support some of the other file formats such as XEX

 

As far as I know though the first Raspberry PI Pico based Atari drive emulator

 

[Eric Badger]

5 hours ago, _The Doctor__ said:

The Forum and most laptop's and pc's do not have HEIC file abilities, perhaps convert to another format so all can view your pictures? 1.2 MB ginormous