Monday, 2 October 2023

'ZILOG' - a MSX2+/turbo R FDD emulator

'ZILOG' is an internal floppy disk drive emulator I designed for the MSX2+ and turbo R computers ( equipped with built-in FDD).You can read more details about these machines here :

MSX2+

MSX turbo R

Like for 'The Thing' (the FM Towns Marty FDD emulator), 'ZILOG' (which I named like this in honor of the Z80 CPU that equips these home computers) replaces the internal mechanical floppy drive with a board able to emulate the floppy interface reading disk images stored on a USB flash drive :

'ZILOG' emulator is powered by the great Flash Floppy firmware and can be controlled by a small external rotary/OLED board :

 
 
Testing of the emulator on my MSX2+ Panasonic FS-A1WSX :