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 :

2 comments:

  1. This is cool! Would it work on a MSX1 or MSX2? If not, why?

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  2. MSX1 and MSX2 have no internal floppy disk drive (except for FS-A1F and FS-A1FM but they have different connector and drive location).'ZILOG' emulator is suitable for these models :

    Panasonic FS-A1FX
    Panasonic FS-A1WSX
    Panasonic FS-A1WX
    Panasonic FS-A1GT
    Panasonic FS-A1ST

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