Atari 8-bit imaging
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I'm really happy to see the SuperCard emerge! I've never been happy with the slow pace of the Kryoflux team and am hoping this will be different. I submitted hundreds of Atari 8-bit stream dumps to the Kryoflux team years ago and have yet to receive a single IPA.

SuperCard already seems off to a good start with a documented image format and developers making progress in supporting it in emulators and FPGA hardware. I'm also excited to hear that the SuperCard will eventually work as a drive emulator. So much promise!

I've just ordered my device and would like to get involved. I can minimally help by providing disk images of many copy-protected original disks. I'd also really like to see Mac support which I might be able to assist with.

Does the SuperCard require a modified 5.25" drive in order to image the back side of floppy disks as the Kryoflux does? If so, do the modifications that applied to the Kryoflux also apply here?
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Let me know if you need any info for supporting Mac OSX. There are FTDI interface (USB) drivers for Mac OSX, and there is C code for dumping disks available.

You don't need a modified drive to be able to read/write the back side of a disk by just flipping it over. However, there is support for a flippy drive in terms of stepping, but not actual reading/writing. I need to add that.
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