Usagi Electric | Minicomputer Part 23: The CDC Floppy Drive Finally Works! @UsagiElectric | Uploaded November 2022 | Updated October 2024, 15 hours ago.
Boom shaka laka! It works baby! It was a ridiculous journey, and it wasn’t a clean win, but a win’s a win. But first, let’s answer a couple questions, notably, why am I spending so much time on this floppy in the first place. And then, let’s dive into the microcode and see what it took to get that updated, and finally, let’s play around with the working floppy and see what kind of neat stuff we can do with it.
Centurion Wiki:
github.com/Nakazoto/CenturionComputer/wiki
If you want to support the channel please hop over to Patreon:
patreon.com/usagielectric
Also, we now have some epic shirts for sale!
my-store-11554688.creator-spring.com
Come join us on Discord and Twitter!
Discord: discord.gg/p7UsfHD
Twitter: twitter.com/UsagiElectric
Intro Music adapted from:
Artist: The Runaway Five
Title: The Shinra Shuffle
ocremix.org/remix/OCR01847
Thanks for watching!
Chapters
0:00 Introduction
1:00 Centurion Roadmap
4:14 Understanding the FFC microcode
6:20 What did we need to update?
9:15 Where is that one byte located at?
10:14 That fixed it, right? Right?
11:50 Let’s exercise that floppy!
14:26 Let’s properly format this disk for the Centurion!
16:26 A slight detour to understand Centurion “tracks”
17:58 Can we get the OS onto a floppy?
20:24 Let’s boot from the floppy!
21:47 Hooray! A largely useless OS!
24:03 Where is this really going to shine?
26:04 Bird?!
Boom shaka laka! It works baby! It was a ridiculous journey, and it wasn’t a clean win, but a win’s a win. But first, let’s answer a couple questions, notably, why am I spending so much time on this floppy in the first place. And then, let’s dive into the microcode and see what it took to get that updated, and finally, let’s play around with the working floppy and see what kind of neat stuff we can do with it.
Centurion Wiki:
github.com/Nakazoto/CenturionComputer/wiki
If you want to support the channel please hop over to Patreon:
patreon.com/usagielectric
Also, we now have some epic shirts for sale!
my-store-11554688.creator-spring.com
Come join us on Discord and Twitter!
Discord: discord.gg/p7UsfHD
Twitter: twitter.com/UsagiElectric
Intro Music adapted from:
Artist: The Runaway Five
Title: The Shinra Shuffle
ocremix.org/remix/OCR01847
Thanks for watching!
Chapters
0:00 Introduction
1:00 Centurion Roadmap
4:14 Understanding the FFC microcode
6:20 What did we need to update?
9:15 Where is that one byte located at?
10:14 That fixed it, right? Right?
11:50 Let’s exercise that floppy!
14:26 Let’s properly format this disk for the Centurion!
16:26 A slight detour to understand Centurion “tracks”
17:58 Can we get the OS onto a floppy?
20:24 Let’s boot from the floppy!
21:47 Hooray! A largely useless OS!
24:03 Where is this really going to shine?
26:04 Bird?!
