Is anyone to "that point" yet? (On physical drives and floppy controllers)

[Omega-TI]

Okay, we have cassette users, we have cartridge only users, we have Nano-PEB users and we have side-car TIPI users. All of these people get along WITHOUT any physical disk drives or emulated drives like the Lotharek. So, this begs the question...

 

ARE THERE ANY P-BOX USER(S) OUT THERE YET RUNNING WITHOUT A FLOPPY CONTROLLER?

 

[+adamantyr]

Well after getting my PEB TiPi, I'm definitely considering it! The big question is, what to put in that big empty space?

[Omega-TI]

Well after getting my PEB TiPi, I'm definitely considering it! The big question is, what to put in that big empty space?

 

Power switches?

Temperature display?

LED display for the RPi?

A drawer to hold an alternate cartridge or two? (If setup as a tower).

An amplified speaker with a grill covering the hole?

[+OLD CS1]

Love the click-bait thread titles

[Omega-TI]

Love the click-bait thread titles

 

Edited!

[jrhodes]

Only reason i am "getting along" without a physical disk drive, is that i can not afford it.

I have and prefer physical 1541 and 1581 drives on my C64.

I have a MMCReplay that can emulate a 1541 drive, but i still prefer the physical ones.

Given the chance, i would add a physical drive, floppy or HDD, to my TI.

And even then, i would still make heavy use of CS1.

Edited August 31, 2018 by jrhodes

[RickyDean]

Only reason i am "getting along" without a physical disk drive, is that i can not afford it.

I have and prefer physical 1541 and 1581 drives on my C64.

I have a MMCReplay that can emulate a 1541 drive, but i still prefer the physical ones.

Given the chance, i would add a physical drive, floppy or HDD, to my TI.

And even then, i would still make heavy use of CS1.

You might think so, but I got my first TI from a Goodwill in/or about 1993, used a cassette deck at first, but after I got my first PEB box and then had a small business selling TI equip, there was no going back to the cassette, except for the occasional program specific use.

[RXB]

I personally use my SCSI drive mostly for 3 reasons.

1. Faster.

2. File size does not matter as I can have 8507 sector DV80 file size.

3. WDS1.LOAD or WDS1.UTIL1 works great for a boot routine.

[Shift838]

i don't know if I would ever get to this point. Maybe if all my FDC's and other stuff crapped out. But I would probably just try to buy another FDC etc to replace the failed.

[+Lee Stewart]

Okay, we have cassette users, we have cartridge only users, we have Nano-PEB users and we have side-car TIPI users. All of these people get along WITHOUT any physical disk drives or emulated drives like the Lotharek. So, this begs the question...

 

ARE THERE ANY P-BOX USER(S) OUT THERE YET RUNNING WITHOUT A FLOPPY CONTROLLER?

 

I do not see any logical fallacy here—only a question raised.

 

...lee

[GDMike]

I am using my PEU with 2 floppies and eventually a HRD 512 IF I can get it to stay up long enuff AND a NANO,AND the classic99 - all in trying to keep in step while writing TF stuff that addresses the SAMs memory space. Eventually to have a program (?? don't know what that even looks like), to run on all platforms. BUT my problem is that I would REALLY LOVE to keep copies of my code on FLOPPIES to test real - time speed coming from floppy, BUT I'm not sure how to get it from NANO or Classic99 to actual floppy without getting a USB floppy adapter for the PC..

 

Is there a way to move code from NanoPEB to a Supercart, then transfer that Forth Code to PEU? task ...then Im gonna have to build a SC or grab a mini-mem cart off ebay, which I should prob do anyway.

Edited September 8, 2018 by GDMike

[+Ksarul]

There are probably two quick routes to get you where you want to be. Insert the CF card into a PC and copy the volume with your programs in it to the PC. Use TI Image tool to move the files on it to an HFE virtual disk image (or to a TI disk image) with a floppy geometry that your system supports. This first part applies to both solutions. Then you can go one of two ways:

 

Install an RS-232 card in your PEB modified to use Fred Kaal's HDX, connect it to the PC with a serial cable, and copy the floppy image over to your TI.

 

Install an HXC drive emulator in your PEB, copy the HFe image to an SD card on the PC end, insert it into the HXC drive, and copy it to a regular floppy with a disk manager.

 

You also have the option of trying to copy the file to a 360K PC floppy and using PC Transfer on the TI side to read the PC disk and copy the files--but that only works with a TI controller that supports double density. . .and note that an HD PC 5.25 disk/drive is NOT going to work for this, it has to be a DD disk/drive.