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Post #10 by fiath
Source Forum68kMLA
CategorySoftware
Post DateMon, 21 Jun 2010 - 13:05
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/kryoflux-usb-floppy-controller-beta-released.19914/
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Be aware that there have been products in the past (catweasel for one) the promise to read/write many formats when somebody comes up with the software, and nobody does do the software.
Then it's a good thing that the software side is our core strength :)

We actually read basically any format disk already (at least those for 3.5" and 5.25" drives that we support connecting right now). We also export to common sector file formats (listed above) for better compatibility with other tools that would not understand our "raw" stream format (we will be adding an open and dumping-hardware-independent stream format soon). We think we support pretty much every major platform out there already with the supported sector formats, but it is possible we missed one or two (maybe these Mac MFS/HFS disks? I guess we'll find out soon). Also, any varient of "generic MFM" FDC controllers should already work as an exported sector format already (we have developed some intelligent software that allows us to automatically support any wierd varient).

Lastly, we've been doing software development for preservation activity for 10 years now (and done many years of research before that), so I think it's safe to say we are not going away any time soon. :)

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