An interesting update on greaseweazle. As I understand this it now supports LIF at the file level as well as at the disc format level.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OLdqJqJ490 On Sun, Jun 25, 2023 at 9:43 AM Tony Duell via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 25, 2023 at 8:31 AM r.stricklin via cctalk > <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > > > > > On Jun 24, 2023, at 11:10 PM, Tony Duell via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > > > > And this is where I get lost.. > > > > > > > I do not understand your overbearing attitude of helplessness toward > this project. I have known you on many occasions to go to far greater > lengths to achieve far deeper understanding of far more complicated > devices. Far less intelligent people than you have managed somehow to > marshal the necessary resources to make useful headway with the damn thing. > The majority of the questions you’re demanding answers to seem to me like > the kind of questions that could be easily answered with about four > minutes’ worth of simple experimentation. > > It's a combination of things : > > I regard the Greaseweazle (or any other similar device) as a tool to > help me to do something which I enjoy -- running classic computers. > While I am happy to spend time improving my skills at using tools, I > do not expect to have to guess at what the designer was doing. > > I also want to understand what my tools should be doing. Not what they > seem to have done in the past. Getting some of my classics running is > a big enough ob without having to worry whether or not some missing > option in writing the boot disk image to a real disk has caused that > disk to be mangled. The more I know to be correct, the better. I can > sit down with the Greaseweazle board, the PC, a floppy drive and a > logic analyser and probably find some combination of options that > produces what look to be sensible signals on the Write Data line. But > whether they are sensible signals is a much bigger problem. > > Yes, I like solving puzzles. But this shouldn't be a puzzle. If I want > to solve a puzzle about reading and writing arbitrary disk formats the > I'll design my own device to do it. > > -tony >
