23.Dec.2023
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HxC floppy emulator: Software V2.15.1.2
The floppy emulator HxC by Jean-Francois Del Nero completely replaces the floppy drive (of an Amiga) with an electronic device. The project, which was launched in 2006, is available in two versions, with a SD card port or with USB port (amiga-news.de reported).
A new version of the HxC floppy emulator software has now been released. The changes:
- Many fixes and improvements into the flux stream management :
- One revolution only / 2 indexes support fixed.
- Fix stream files formats export : No more glitch after the first revolution index. (Fix SCP and KF export).
- Sectors recovery support - Can be disabled/enabled with the FLUXSTREAM_SECTORS_RECOVERY variable.
This feature try to automatically recover/fix bad sectors with copies present in others stream revolutions.
- Default pulses timing jitter tolerance increased from 10% to 14% (Config file).
- Kryoflux writer : stream to stream conversion : Don't align output stream to the next index.
- SCP writer : stream to stream conversion : Don't align output stream to the next index.
- SCP loader : Fix singled-sided images support (Fix the number of tracks/cylinder).
- SCP loader : Fix broken support of SCP images with more than 5 revolutions.
- SCP loader : Fix odd number of tracks + double step mode issue (Last track missing).
- Logic analyzer capture loader : nameTT.S.logicbin8bits file name convention support. (TT=track S=side)
- New XML format : MC50/MC300/MC500 formats and empty data disk.
- New XML format : Sharp X68000 2HD disk.
- Track display : Fix possible infinite loop : check the bitrate value and stop + report if needed.
- HFEv3 loader : Support RAND_OPCODE right after SKIPBITS_OPCODE.
- New X68000 DIM file image loader.
- New Apple II 2MG file image loader. (WIP - To be completed)
- XML raw loader : Fix images last sector loading.
- Track editor : New "insert" and "remove" track operations.
- HFE writers : New "HFE_WRITER_WRITENOTALLOWED" parameter : Set it to 1 to write protect the exported hfe files.
- HxC stream (Pauline) : Auto detect and load properly hard-sectored dumps.
- D88 loader : Fix possible infinite loop with corrupted image.
- Batch converter : New BATCHCONVERT_KEEP_SOURCE_FILE_NAME_EXTENSION setting to enable/disable the source file extension to the output file name.
- BMP export : New Stream tracks mode export.
- User interface : Save and restore previous state (WIP, Done : batch converter window)
- NSI Northstar : Some index timings and formats fixes.
- macOS : Better CAPSlib/ipf lib support. (Renaud Guérin)
- New track format : Centurion MFM. (Rick Altherr)
- Code : gcc's -fanalyzer used against the libhxcfe library : Many possible issues fixed !
- Many internal code improvements and fixes.
(dr)
[News message: 23. Dec. 2023, 22:43] [Comments: 0]
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