I should say that that's actually the Fluxengine software in combination with the Greaseweazle hardware.
On Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 11:19 AM Adrian Godwin <artgod...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> >
