| [News] First version of Arjuna, new Windows drivers for Catweasel | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 08-Feb-2004 01:39 GMT by Jens Schönfeld | 21 comments
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Arjuna is a modular, expandable solution to access floppy disks from many
different systems. It supports the Catweasel Controller to read and write
formats not compatible with the standard PC controller. Arjuna is written in
C++ and uses Qt for it's GUI. The project by Christoph 'Doc Bacardi' Thelen
now has it's own homepage and a mirror on our webspace. The first version 0.6beta is available for download there.
Arjuna is a project that reaches very far into the past, digging deep into
almost forgotten knowledge about data storage. At the same time it focusses
on the future as a universal tool for data restauration and conversion. Hoping to find a lot of developers to contribute floppy disk formats, Christoph is trying to make this a Sourceforge project.
The Windows version of Arjuna needs an updated driver for the Catweasel to work properly. Download this version here (86K, experimental).
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| Comment 1 | takemehomegrandma | Registered user | 08-Feb-2004 00:52 GMT |
| Comment 2 | redrumloa | | 08-Feb-2004 03:59 GMT |
| Comment 3 | (Trusted User) | | 08-Feb-2004 09:09 GMT |
| Comment 4 | Frans | | 08-Feb-2004 09:21 GMT |
| Comment 5 | Jens Schönfeld | | 08-Feb-2004 12:14 GMT |
| Comment 6 | Don Cox | Registered user | 08-Feb-2004 14:37 GMT |
| Comment 7 | Jens Schönfeld | | 08-Feb-2004 22:20 GMT |
| Comment 8 | takemehomegrandma | Registered user | 08-Feb-2004 22:35 GMT |
| Comment 9 | mbpark | | 08-Feb-2004 23:13 GMT |
| Comment 10 | Darth_X | Registered user | 08-Feb-2004 23:16 GMT |
| Comment 11 | Darth_X | Registered user | 08-Feb-2004 23:25 GMT |
| Comment 12 | Darth_X | Registered user | 08-Feb-2004 23:48 GMT |
| Comment 13 | Don Cox | Registered user | 09-Feb-2004 08:35 GMT |
| Comment 14 | Jens Schönfeld | | 09-Feb-2004 09:29 GMT |
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| First version of Arjuna, new Windows drivers for Catweasel : Comment 15 of 21 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Jens Schönfeld on 09-Feb-2004 09:44 GMT | Don't want to make too many posts...
Darth_X: The Catweasel can't be very much cheaper with the new ideas I have. I'm aiming at a few added features and a smaller board with the next version, and hopefully a 5-10 EUR lower retail price. Not sure what I'll have to drop for that, because I have a lot of ideas on how to improve the hardware. Another problem I have with non-European countries is that the EUR currency is so strong. My products were 25% cheaper a little over a year ago, and I can hardly make better prices, because the biggest part of the production cost is paid in EUR.
Takemehomegrandma: Of course you can create your own disk format. How about a disk that has every even track formatted in PC sectors, odd tracks in Amiga sectors, using some funny filesystem like that of the MSX machines? (can't remember if that was compatible with DOS, but that's what you can do with Arjuna's Graphbuilder).
Back when the Catweasel was new for the Amiga (November 1996), we created a high-density format to show off the Catweasel's capabilities: 2.3M on a disk. The Amiga operating system acts a bit funny when you're trying to format this disk, because it actually asks you twice if you really want to format it. Something this big must be a harddrive ;-)
Darth_X: Making a turnkey solution would mean that my "production depth" is way higher than it is right now. Since making that turnkey solution does not take an engineer, but more like a reseller who puts together a bundle and approaches the businesses he has in mind, I leave that up to my retail partners. Here's a business opportunity!
Off-Topic: C-One is being worked on every day. <teaser> Expect some news this week, the new drive CPU is finished, and it's burning tires in the simulator. </teaser>
Jens Schönfeld |
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