SD / CF Solutions

[mjnurney]

As im always interested by such things..

What 8 bit computers now have SD / CF load options or IDE?

Mr Zetro , zaxon and Andy have enlightened my dim brain on the ZX speccy setup...but what else?

ZX Spectrum.............DivIDE & Zetr0's IDE setup
C64 / 128.................IDE64 ,sd2iec by zaxon
Ti99/4a....................CF7 & CF7+ (32k & CF)
Atari 8 bit.................AtariIDE, MyIDE
MSX.........................Flashrom & IDE
BBC.........................BBCIDE
SAMCoupe.................ATOM
ZX 80 /81..................ZXPand SD interface
QL
Apple ii.....................CFFA
TRS..........................TRSIDE
DRAGON 32/64
ORIC

well after a quick google ...it seems most do

right who's up for a blue ray interface

 

[alexh]

Almost anything which had a floppy disk interface can use the HxC floppy disk emulator.

http://hxc2001.free.fr/floppy_drive_emulator/

 

[fatbob_gb]

The ZX-81 has the excellent ZXPand SD interface and I think that it is soon going to support the Z80 as well.

The BBC & Acorn Electron also use the GoMMC interface for MMC storage

 

[mjnurney]

dont think you'd need a big SD card for the zx80 or 81

 

[specialK]

Atari XE\XL - SIO2SD

 

[zaxon]

Atari STe ide
http://www.fotosik.pl/pokaz_obrazek/d73f075449ba42fe.html

and brand new "SIDE" device for Atari 8 bit

https://picasaweb.google.com/zaxoniec/SIDE?authkey=Gv1sRgCPn_0biSgrGQ4QE#

Atari 8 bit sdrive
http://raster.infos.cz/atari/hw/sdrive/sdriveen.htm

Atari 16 bit ultrasatan, satan disk,

And also my new sound AY interface for zx81 can use card as data storage,

 

[SkydivinGirl]

C64/C128 also have the uIEC (Retro Innovations) and the 1541 Ultimate(II). Both are excellent devices.

VIC-20 can also use the uIEC and the Final Expansion 3.

Heather

 

[moijk]

C64 / 128.................IDE64 ,sd2iec by zaxon

Chamelon 64 from IC.

 

[mjnurney]

Why don't we have a list of all these somewhere ?

I'll do a review of my lovely ti99 cf7 when I get it sorted, can't wait

 

[zaxon]

Becouse something new is always born.

 

[rkauer]

But, does the uIEC/SD2IEC/1541U counts as HD controllers? They are saw by the computer as a floppy unit of sorts (emulating the floppy/cassette).

 

[SkydivinGirl]

@Rogerio

Retro Innovations used to sell a version of the uIEC that had IDE ports but it doesn't look like it is still available. However, all versions of the (u)IEC devices have a sort of Hard Drive mode. You CD into the sub-folders and move around the folder structure like you would a hard drive. The 1541U-II supports this type of a mode but I mostly use the 1541U-II as a disk drive emulator and the uIEC for the hard drive type emulation.

Heather

 

[iainjh]

Hi zaxon

Can you please add some details on the new atari 8 bit SIDE device? Are you selling them / any links you can provide as well as the pic? Cheers and sorry for adding Q's to the thread

Ta Iain

 

[moijk]

But, does the uIEC/SD2IEC/1541U counts as HD controllers? They are saw by the computer as a floppy unit of sorts (emulating the floppy/cassette).

The original question was

"What 8 bit computers now have SD / CF load options or IDE?"

Floppy emulation .. doesn't that count for SD/CF load option?

 

[iainjh]

Vectrex has vecflash ( USB prgrammable cart) and atari 8-bit also has various flash carts ( ie atarimax and several others)

Ok not quite cf or sd but similar effect

 

[Kitman]

I know of at least 1 person who has n HxC working well with Memotech SDX and FDX units.
So you can add that to your list.

Regards
K6

 

[Station240]

What 8 bit computers now have SD / CF load options or IDE?

BBC.........................BBCIDE

To be more accurate there are two different items that implement this.

1) Retroclinic DataCentre
USB adapter, 16bit IDE, RAM disc.
http://retroclinic.com/acorn/datacentre/datacentre.htm
2) 8bit IDE/CF kit by.. me!
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160611192402

If there is any interest I'll put some of mine up on here, w/out the ebay seller taxes.

 

[iainjh]

Hi

Just got to mention - few things and ask a question !

Zaxon's SIDE for atari that he mentioned looks rather interesting, a post is on atariage about it. Could be rather special.

And I can second the retroclinic USB/cf solution for the BBC mentioned above. I have one and It's superb. he ( mark?) also sells BBC reproduction manuals btw but that's another topic )

Id love to know - is there any decent cf or sd solution for oric? At all?

 

[ChrisUnionNJ]

Well the Apple ][ has a CF option for a hard drive..
MicroDrive IDE Controller...

 

[Misser]

I modded my Z64 with an IDE-SD yesturday, Amiga's do like cf=ide and sd-ide also. Seems I bought a few to many hence the mr.backup mod