Hello Zozo, hello friends, all Enteprise fans and supporters.
It is a pleasure to write again on Enterpriseforever, due to my occupations managing RetroWiki, I can't post as much as I like, but certainly I'm still active user of Enterprise as it's my favorite 8 bit and certainly, the best of the 8 bit ever made. Does anyone still not know? xD
I own two floppy emulators, one is the HxC Slim and the other is a Gotek with the firm of Jeff HxC.
Both works perfectly with my disk controller (Apple2Man) and I'm also very lucky since last Saturday gflorez broadened my Enteprise 128 to 576KB. You can watch at Youtube here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwvz9T58b7MRight, Some time ago I downloaded the HxC Zozo Manager version 0.1 (2013) and I was testing with both floppy emulators, but apparently these although support LBA mode, you can not assign disks to the slots, ie, unit A and unit B.
With HxC Slim , not having buttons to select the disk image, an autoboot.hfe file must be used in order to boot and this starts correctly. I have tried all possible configurations HXCSDFE.CFG but refuses to work. What I did is to rename HXC.HFE to AUTOBOOT.HFE, also you can configure both floppy emulators with STARTUPA.HFE and B.
Instead, the Gotek has buttons to change the disk image forward and backward, but the results remain the same. I am not able to work the HxC Manager by Zozo.
I have made a new thread at RetroWiki (
http://rw30.retrowiki.es/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=503 ) and translated here (
https://translate.google.es/translate?sl=es&tl=hu&js=y&prev=_t&hl=es&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Frw30.retrowiki.es%2Fviewtopic.php%3Ff%3D20%26t%3D503&edit-text=&act=url ) for more information about the issue.
I formatted the SD and USB and they are correct (I use Linux)
Well, with the HXC Slim and the Gotek HxC (Jeff) it loads and automatically invokes the menu selection but when the disc (HFE) either A is: or B: there's nothing to do.
I have tried several cables, several CFG and so far I have not managed to activate the HFE you have selected either as A or B. I will continue and I'll be telling evidence, you may only work with screen HxC meanwhile it said.
I have updated the firmware to the latest version, in this case HXCFESlim_V2_1_2_40 version.
I'm testing with several cables and the results are the same, in fact I set the unit A as DS0 and B as DS1, that it looks that either the HxC Manager Zozo when version 0.1 of 2013 or very old or for some reason with Slim HxC and the Gotek not finish going well.
I will continue investigating to see if I take any conclusion more and good, if I can not use this tool, nothing will happen, the I keep using as so far they are working properly, what happens is that this tool is like the one for Amiga, ST and CPC , is great to choose that you want to load in a second.
As you can not choose the boot disk you have the option to always start a HFE, in this case AUTOBOOT.HFE is renowned HXC.HFE and start Enter the disk and invokes the ExDOS perfectly and HXC.COM loads as well.
Do any of you have been able to run the utility with HxC Zozo Slim or the Gotek?
It is possible that HxC incorporating display and buttons only work?
Any help is greatly appreciated, I don't know if there are new versions of Manager, anyway I would like to give it a try.
Really happy to post here again.
Best Regards