Re: Northstar Advantage floppys

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Date	2018-10-01 08:40 -0700
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Subject	Re: Northstar Advantage floppys
From	David Jones <djones60@gmail.com>

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On Sunday, September 30, 2018 at 8:52:10 AM UTC-4, ingmar...@gmail.com wrote:
> G'day folks,
> 
> I'm in Australia and I've recently been given an Advantage but so far no disks. I've also gone through the process of disassembling the 2k boot rom and transferring Z80 code over the serial port from my PC laptop. Nice old machines and no doubt much more fun once I get some disks running.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ingmar
> 
> 
> On Monday, 19 September 2016 23:33:38 UTC+10, David Jones  wrote:
> > Glad you are able to get a boot disk!  
> > 
> > If you don't mind, I would still like to merge your source with mine.  I still have some ideas on a custom boot ROM.  Such as changing the serial boot to be an Intel Hex format loader.  With the larger 4k ROM, there are all kinds of things we could do.  Such as an disk image loader, maybe a tiny basic, etc.  I was also thinking that it might be possible, with a little soldering, to build an adapter for a 16k ROM.
> > 
> > I'm still thinking it would be good to make a version of PC2Flop for the Advantage.  People periodically post in the forums looking for someplace to get disks and this would be handy for them. Plus it would give me a good excuse to relearn Z80 programming :)
> > 
> > David

The newest version of the HxC software on the GoTek floppy emulator will work in the NS Advantage.  The HxC emulator software will also convert the .NSI images you can find online into something their drive software understands.  I was able to use to to create some boot and app disks.

Also if you look on Thingiverse, I put up a template for creating hard sector disks.  Of course, you will need a 3d printer and something to punch the holes.  I used a laser to burn them but not everyone has one strong enough.

David

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