The HxC project currently offers different floppy emulation hardware and software solutions : See the showroom to have a preview of supported machines. Today the HxC Floppy Emulator is a well established floppy disk drive replacement solution present into the retro-computing domain, Music domain and industrial domain.
The HxC Floppy Emulators support most existing floppy formats. The HxC Floppy emulators are designed to be very versatile and to support a large variety of computers / keyboards / samplers / CNC machines at a reasonable price. This electronic device emulate the floppy disk drive behavior and functionnalities. The HxC Floppy Emulator project main idea is to completely replace the floppy disk drive by an electronic device. See the showroom to have a preview of the currently supported machines. It now supports hundreds of machines and floppy formats. The project have grown with the various support requests received during all these years. I personnally started this project in 2006 to revive my Atari ST & Amiga machines and make them easier to use in the incoming world without floppy disks and floppy drives.
#USB FLOPPY EMULATOR CNC PC#
Video games, Retro computing, Music, CNC machines (manufacturing/industrial process).Ğarly 2000s an alternative to the floppy disks was needed for these machines because the floppy support in PC machines started to disappear and the floppy disks reliability and quality was getting worse and worse. What devices are supported? Will the HxC emulator work with my device?Ģ.- Some floppy disk drive retrofit examples - Introductionįloppy disks have disappeared from the market since many years now, but surprisly the machines needed them still largely being used in various domains :
#USB FLOPPY EMULATOR CNC CODE#
CPLD VHDL source code and bitstream: HxCFloppyEmulator_ipcore.zip.SourceForge repository: Softwares & libraries sources.
Last release notes: hxcfloppyemulator_soft_release_notes.txt.PC with a free USB port and a USB A-B cable.You can swap disks while the device is working! No problems with that!.Power on your retro computer and ENJOY!.Load any floppy image file (in case of AMIGA: ADF or ADZ file).Connect HXC with USB A-B cable (not included) to your PC.Connect HCX floppy emulator to your floppy connector (34 pins) in your Amiga/Atari ST/ ZX+3/CPC/PC with a ribbon cable.HxC USB floppy emulator needs a PC with a free USB port to act as a file feeder. This emulator is actually used with Amiga, Atari, CPC, PC computers, different keyboards and samplers, CNC machine tools, and scientific instruments… The SDCard HxC Floppy Emulator can replace different kinds of floppy disk drives and allows you to use SD Card media instead of floppy disks. It allows you to emulate any 34-pin floppy disk drive. The HxC floppy emulator is a very smart device designed by Jean-François Del Nero. The product page on the manufacturer’s website – HERE HxC floppy emulator – USB Description This is the USB version of the HxC floppy emulator.