![]() The HxC2001 appears a drive 1: and is a DSDD drive as far as DOS65 knows. ![]() The HxC2001 is easy to add as second drive to the DOS65 system of Andrew Gregory, since the external 5 1/4 drive is connected at the back with a standard 34 pin cable connector. Or combined as one virtual floppy drive with any physical floppy drive. 3.ĭOS65 can boot from the HxC2001 and show two virtual floppy drives. Jumpers on the back, next to the standard 34 pin floppy connector, allow to select it to action as drive 0. The buttons and the display allow to select a virtual floppy image, a file on the Sd card, as either first or second floppy drive. The HxC2001 is a small device as can be seen on the photo above. Acccessing the DOS65 file system is therefore possible by having my program, DOS65ImageManager, on the PC, access the virtual floppy image on the SD card. The physical problem is solved in the form of a device called HxC2001, which emulates one or two floppy disk and stores the data on an SD card. ![]() I have found and developed a comfortable method to avoid the floppy blues. Luckily DOS65 uses standard MFM, so raw access to sectordate is possible, and that enables floppy emulation hardware. The DOS65 file-system is not compatible at all with MS-DOS FAT for example, or any known file system. The second challenge on retro systems is how to get data out of the non-standard filesystems. Old floppies and old drives wear out, new drives and floppies are hard to obtain. Working with a system like DOS65 confronts you with interesting challenges if you want to use the files in modern PC environments. Floppy drives are now quite old-fashioned and the reliability in the old days was already a problem. ![]()
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