I am planning to add SPDIF, though it's a little fiddly (the easiest way right now seems to be to actually plumb it in via the FPGA), so I've been prototyping to try adding the relevant stuff to try that out (the chip shortage is certainly slowing things down, though). In the mean time I2S is on the …

Yes, mine supports a DOS utility I made (and I plan to add Win16 and Win32 apps at some point, and possibly Linux for a laugh) to control, as well as plugging in a Crystalfontz USB button/display module which gives you menus you can use to switch disk images/etc. On top of that you can control it …

Interesting idea - that might work, but MSCDEX only permits reads (and also implements a bunch of caching, so you don't even know if a read is going to hit the physical hardware), so it'd still need the ASPI driver (for writes), which is a bit of a shame. Thankfully for ASPI some of the 'standard' …

Interesting idea - that might work, but MSCDEX only permits reads (and also implements a bunch of caching, so you don't even know if a read is going to hit the physical hardware), so it'd still need the ASPI driver (for writes), which is a bit of a shame. Thankfully for ASPI some of the 'standard' …

I wonder if ATAPI commands could be used to swap drives, meaning a software could be written for each OS. I know there was a rudimentary version of this created for the IDESimulator. Another idea for those machines that have USB is a serial to USB adapter and then echo commands to the serial …

Enjoy the chaos ! :-) & congratulations. Thanks ;) I am fully expecting chaos 😛 Is there a list of all the chipsets/implementations that you've tested ? Interesting idea - I'll see what I can do. I suspect (as the IDE cards just connect some signals from the ISA bus fairly directly onto the IDE bus …

Wow, this thread has changed a bit since I last looked. Anyway yes, to address some comments I just read over that have appeared: 1) Screens and buttons: I sadly didn't add any extra I/O. I definitely won't make this mistake again - also some LEDs :) I thought at first "USB is fine, dual USB means …

Yeah, I'm still working on PC support - basically, the older your PC (ISA, 386) the harder it has been to make it work, ironically. It comes down to the IDE spec having its historical roots in the PC ISA bus, the closer to the 'original' you get the hairier things get (and a lot of ISA I/O cards …

I'll look into these (I may need to find such CUE/BIN dumps though for testing). I've seen similar issues before but they should have been sorted. For the audio issue I'm probably just missing a bit flag on an audio command I wasn't expecting or something 😊 Edit: I can reproduce the issue, though …

Wow, thanks for the very fast response ! I actually pm-ed you regarding the image group idea because I believe that might feasible at low cost and wanted to be sure you saw that . What are your thoughts on this idea ? Apparently I can't reply here yet anyway, I must have posted too little 😊 I think …

Now I just need a tool to change which image is currently loaded, I know something is in the works, is there a beta version of the tool available? Some support is in the firmware, but it's still WIP. I can send you it to test once I get my 486 plugged in again (it has the project and I've been …

The DOS utility isn't quite ready yet either, but I'm hoping all of it will come together soon for a new release with a bunch of new features. Here's a silly little screenshot of it in an earlier incarnation I shared before, just testing the UI side: Screen Shot 2020-09-03 at 11.18.57PM.png It …

Does any such device exist or is in the works? I see those mentioned in the thread but none are very Gotek-like which is what people are asking for. I mean, my PCB will do exactly what you want, the only issue is the lack of a button to switch images. You could also swap SD card or USB flash drive …

Electric_monk, Apologies is this was already covered but I’m not quite clear. Can you attach an audio cable between your device and a sound card for in-game cd audio in say Quake? Sorry yes, analog audio is on the 4 pin header at the top left, same pinout (LGGR) as a real optical drive. Sadly no …

The most important question for me is: can I boot from the device? I have a lot of mainboards, which do not offer to boot from USB. I always have to attach an IDE-CD-Rom to install an OS. 200$ is quite expensive, but it's worth to finally get rid of those ugly CDs.... I don't remember if I tried it …

Currently DOS will just see it as a plain ATAPI drive - you need to connect something via USB if you want to swap disks/etc. (which could be the DOS machine itself, if you could get USB CDC serial devices working under it). However, I did install Turbo Pascal (the first language I ever really …

That 200 USD device linked to in this thread sadly only offers analog output. I'm the guy who created that device - the DAC chip I'm using doesn't offer SPDIF, just analog, but I can certainly look into alternatives. Since it was originally aimed specifically at Dance Dance Revolution arcade PCBs, …

Jo22 wrote: but no *.NRG is slightly lame, though. I mean, I'm open to suggestions 😉 I haven't heard of that format before though. It doesn't look very well documented (at least, based on the weirdly technical Wikipedia article about it).