jedie wrote:But feels not as a physical floppy drive?
When using DriveWire the server acts as disk controller and floppy drive. So you still use a DOS (HBD-DOS) like if you had a real floppy drive, but extra drivers in HDB-DOS send translated disk controller commands over the serial line to the server (and receive the disk data).
btw. i found stuff around to emulate floppy drives with the raspberry pi:
Emulating the Commodore disk controller is easier since it uses a serial interface. But processing all the necessary pins on the Dragon bus to decode addresses and then sending out the data on the data bus within the time the Dragon expects it might be difficult for the RPi. Though I would be delighted to be proven wrong
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If you add some circuitry (latches, address decoding) in between it might be possible.
It seems better to use DriveWire instead, unless you have some special programs that wants to talk directly to the disk controller short-circuiting the DOS so that you really need full controller emulation.
If the serial line used for DriveWire is not fast enough one could think of using a parallel interface like the Becker port between the Dragon and the DriveWire server. I think Cloud-9 is cooking on something like that. With HDB-DOS for Dragon we can join the fun!