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A project log for Floppy-bird

Use a floppy-disk as a multi-frame-buffer, store audio-samples, and increase capacity to boot!

eric-hertzEric Hertz 11/26/2017 at 09:070 Comments

The read/write data pins on a floppy drive do not correspond to flux-value (e.g. 1 for North, 0 for South). Instead these signals supply a falling-edge at each flux transition... and the duration of the low pulse is somewhat arbitrary. Thus, I don't think it's possible to know the polarity on the disk. Though that doesn't matter. What does matter is that we can't just drive the /WD pin with our PWM signal, as will be stored on the media...

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