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now listening: Pilot - M.A.D.E.S - Arrival
Okay, so I think I was looking at the Kaypro FDC the wrong way. I also have been working on figuring out both the hardware user interface and how to load images onto the SD cards. I think a pair of tactile buttons for up/down, an enable slide switch, a 16x2 LCD, and an SD card should be fine, but that leads to questions about how to label or name the images. Anything that requires up/down is going to make entering disk names hard, and maybe the answer is a better interface. Maybe a joystick-style interface with the 5-point star, something like up, down, back, enter, not entirely sure. Theoretically I could take up both (full-height) drive panels, but I'd rather do it with one and keep one floppy on hand.
As for the FDC, I was thinking I had to implement the processor interface, but it seems more like I'm going to have to implement the floppy drive interface; that should be interesting and does change the equation a little bit. I started writing code last night (making it as far as a few enums and some simple functions) before deciding to plan things out more.
Some of the questions I have to answer still:
Lots of work to do, so litte time to do it.