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PicoIDE – An open IDE/ATAPI drive emulator

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Re: PicoIDE – An open IDE/ATAPI drive emulator

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Post by easyThrowaway »

mos87 wrote: post #30
selfhoster11 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

MDF/MDS isn't open, but could possibly be reverse-engineered enough to read the DPMS data.

CDEMU/libmirage support both CCD et al and MDF/MDS images. Mixed modes, etc - the whole shebang. How good the copyright protection emulation is I cannot say tho.

I could be utterly wrong on this, but AFAIK the "emulation" in tools like Daemon Tools or Alcohol was only required when the disc image was created with partial or missing DPMS/subchannel data; If the virtual drive provides transparently the required stream the copy protection should be none the wiser on the actual drive emulation.

Re: PicoIDE – An open IDE/ATAPI drive emulator

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Post by [deleted] »

polpo wrote: post #4

Fun seeing this posted - I'm the creator of the project. While it's meant to be a generic IDE/ATAPI emulator the two main use cases I envisioned for the project are in the area of retro computing: CD-ROM under MS-DOS and Windows 9x, where software-only virtual drive emulation options are lacking or nonexistent, and IDE hard drive emulation on early IDE machines where the drive geometries are fixed. Since the project…

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Re: PicoIDE – An open IDE/ATAPI drive emulator

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Post by rasz »

polpo wrote: post #4

Fun seeing this posted - I'm the creator of the project. While it's meant to be a generic IDE/ATAPI emulator the two main use cases I envisioned for the project are in the area of retro computing: CD-ROM under MS-DOS and Windows 9x, where software-only virtual drive emulation options are lacking or nonexistent, and IDE hard drive emulation on early IDE machines where the drive geometries are fixed. Since the project…

You moved up to IDE while Im playing with RLL and investigating EDSI and SMD :) https://github.com/raszpl/sigrok-disk

You know, with couple differential transceivers on a daughterboard you could support everything this https://www.drem.info does :)

Re: PicoIDE – An open IDE/ATAPI drive emulator

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Post by rasz »

gryson wrote: post #12
polpo wrote: post #4

Fun seeing this posted - I'm the creator of the project. While it's meant to be a generic IDE/ATAPI emulator the two main use cases I envisioned for the project are in the area of retro computing: CD-ROM under MS-DOS and Windows 9x, where software-only virtual drive emulation options are lacking or nonexistent, and IDE hard drive emulation on early IDE machines where the drive geometries are fixed. Since the project…

How does the PicoIDE compare with the ZuluIDE? Are they direct competitors or are there different use cases? I've been on the fence about getting a ZuluIDE for a while because of the price and because I don't exactly need one... I'll wait and see how the PicoIDE is priced.

ZuluIDE uses FPGA, PicoIDE is beautiful $1 rp2350 + buffers.

rp2040/rp2350 are the best things that raspberry pi ever released. From bitbanging HDMI to 400Msps logic analyzers https://github.com/gusmanb/logicanalyzer?tab=readme-ov-file#...

Re: PicoIDE – An open IDE/ATAPI drive emulator

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Post by Palomides »

polpo wrote: post #14
userbinator wrote: post #11

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Personally I think the half-melted (literally) rough 3D-printed look is rather ugly, and would prefer a stamped steel plate --- like this (floppy emulator): https://lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=28

A stamped steel plate is not possible at my planned price point. But one thing I will note is that this 3D printed front panel is only a prototype.

as an aside to anyone else reading this, laser cut and bent sheet metal has gotten pretty cheap and easy, I think you could have an okay (unpainted) tray/case like this made for maybe $5 to $10 at 100 units

Re: PicoIDE – An open IDE/ATAPI drive emulator

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Post by marcosscriven »

Palomides wrote: post #36
polpo wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A stamped steel plate is not possible at my planned price point. But one thing I will note is that this 3D printed front panel is only a prototype.

as an aside to anyone else reading this, laser cut and bent sheet metal has gotten pretty cheap and easy, I think you could have an okay (unpainted) tray/case like this made for maybe $5 to $10 at 100 units

Where, out of interest?

Re: PicoIDE – An open IDE/ATAPI drive emulator

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Post by masfuerte »

actionfromafar wrote: post #26
deaddodo wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is most useful for retrocomputing, and that’s gonna be the target demographic. While it’s true that industrial and manufacturing sometimes have really old hardware, that’s usually less due to them not having newer options and more due to preferring something tried and true (it “just works” for their workflow) or the sheer economics of upgrading; in most of those cases, there’s already a flow for interfacing with…

I have seen EDM machines with floppy interfaces. A great upgrade for those is a floppy emulator.

I'd never heard of Electrical Discharge Machining. The video is less than two minutes and gives a quick introduction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_discharge_machining

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1D5DLWWMp8

Re: PicoIDE – An open IDE/ATAPI drive emulator

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Post by tracker1 »

nebula8804 wrote: post #29

Well sounds like I may have jumped the gun yet again. I managed to nab a IDE Simulator v3 by Tattiebogle in Sept. Maybe I should have waited for this. This has happened to me before so I wonder if maybe word got out that this was coming so others got their products out asap?

I wouldn't worry too hard about it, if you need something, you don't need a potential something. Until something is released and being sold/distributed, it's not something you should necessarily consider a real option.

Don't be too hard on yourself. We've all bought hardware that saw alternatives come out, or extreme price drops before we get around to using it. Right now, I'm just glad I bought a couple nvme drives before the recent pricing bumps. Similar for my desktop upgrade earlier in the year.

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