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Re: ex- USSR and Soviet Bloc hardware
shattered #108497 01/18/17 11:14 PM
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Originally Posted By shattered
Help, my floppy disk is rusting smile


Looks like someone carved up the top surface of the disk with their floppy head before you got it?

This is a REALLY common problem with crap (ie. soft) oxide/binder. Top heads like to dig into the top surface.
Re: ex- USSR and Soviet Bloc hardware
shattered #108498 01/19/17 05:55 AM
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What program makes those awesome floppy graphics?

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Re: ex- USSR and Soviet Bloc hardware
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Aufit -- http://info-coach.fr/atari/software/pc-projects/Aufit.php

HxC can also produce similar graphics but they are less awesome smile
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shattered #108503 01/19/17 04:17 PM
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Originally Posted By shattered
Aufit -- http://info-coach.fr/atari/software/pc-projects/Aufit.php



"Aufit is not yet an open source project"

great...
Re: ex- USSR and Soviet Bloc hardware
Al Kossow #108504 01/19/17 04:41 PM
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Originally Posted By Al Kossow
Originally Posted By shattered
Aufit -- http://info-coach.fr/atari/software/pc-projects/Aufit.php



"Aufit is not yet an open source project"

great...


yeah.. it's a shame when tools like this aren't open source

HxC being open source was VERY useful as I was able to hack the code in order to extract working images (ignoring sector sizes) from the .raw dumps of the Magnet System games for example.

(I couldn't see a way to force such behaviour from the command-line or GUI at least)

definitely limits how useful the tools are if you don't have the code to play with.
Re: ex- USSR and Soviet Bloc hardware
Al Kossow #108505 01/19/17 06:23 PM
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Originally Posted By Al Kossow
Originally Posted By shattered
Help, my floppy disk is rusting smile


Looks like someone carved up the top surface of the disk with their floppy head before you got it?

This is a REALLY common problem with crap (ie. soft) oxide/binder. Top heads like to dig into the top surface.


Yes, there are some marks on the surface. There are disks in much worse condition, don't know yet if they are interesting or not.
Re: ex- USSR and Soviet Bloc hardware
shattered #108527 01/22/17 05:31 PM
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Originally Posted By shattered

This particular floppy is not interesting, but a few others in the same pile are -- but they use an unique format that has to be emulated first (http://torlus.com/floppy/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=1384)


I'm trying to make SAMdisk accept those flux images and dump track data for MAME (and other emulators) to read. Controller simulation is WIP too:
Re: ex- USSR and Soviet Bloc hardware
shattered #108529 01/22/17 11:40 PM
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OK, that's now working. Getting MAME to read them natively may be harder.
Code:
% samdisk --mx --scale=115 scan work/floppies/A3-05.scp
[work/floppies/A3-05.scp]
80 Cyls 2 Heads:
250Kbps mx, 11 sectors,  256 bytes/sector:
  0.0  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
  1.0  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
  2.0  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
  3.0  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
  4.0  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
<...>


Will clean up and submit to its github repo soon.
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shattered #108544 01/23/17 09:22 PM
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Shattered, did you checkout the "Palestra", apparently a Russian discrete ball & paddles game, full schematics in this blog entry:
Emulation of AY-3-8500-1 (and clones) soon ?? which also indicates that we had/have a decap going for the AY-3-8500-1,
which is the chip I was looking for. Anyway the Palestra could be a perfect candidate for you to try out Netlists as it is all in Russian I thought :-)

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Re: ex- USSR and Soviet Bloc hardware
shattered #108578 01/24/17 06:30 PM
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I heard of that console; never played it, though.

I'll put that on my backlog of cool hardware to emulate someday smile

Here's another cool hardware -- a sound card for Agat-9 (apple II clone/derivative):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyzk-iZwCPE

Track listing:

(unknown)
Ottawan -- Hands Up
Alan Parsons Project -- Sirius
Shostakovich -- Dolls' Dance
(unknown)

Forum discussion: http://zx-pk.ru/threads/26882-muzykalnyj-kompleks-na-baze-agata.html
Hardware info: http://agatcomp.ru/Reading/jzs52.shtml
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