{"id":2119,"date":"2013-01-06T12:07:51","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T10:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/?p=2119"},"modified":"2013-01-06T12:07:51","modified_gmt":"2013-01-06T10:07:51","slug":"le-thomson-et-le-hxc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/?p=2119","title":{"rendered":"Le Thomson et le HxC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another victory for HxC, even if a narrow one this time. I managed to connect the floppy emulator to my Thomson TO8 and even load some files. The plug is a bit problematic big 14-pin DIN, but luckily the same connector was used on Atari ST for external floppy. Thus, I bought an ST cable off eBay and butchered it for a good cause. The original instructions can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.system-cfg.com\/viewtopic.php?f=18&amp;t=3576\">here<\/a>, but in case the forum disappears I&#8217;ll mirror them here together with the ST cable colors. On the left the Thomson pin numbers and on the right the flat cable:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 (green) \u2013 16<\/li>\n<li>2 (yellow) \u2013 24<\/li>\n<li>3 (blue) \u2013 2<\/li>\n<li>4 (orange) \u2013 32<\/li>\n<li>5 (purple) \u2013 26<\/li>\n<li>6 (red) \u2013 22<\/li>\n<li>7 (cyan) \u2013 30<\/li>\n<li>8 (brown) \u2013 18<\/li>\n<li>9 (black and white) \u2013 28<\/li>\n<li>10 (black) \u2013 20<\/li>\n<li>11 (brown and white) \u2013 8<\/li>\n<li>12 (pink) \u2013 12<\/li>\n<li>13 (white) \u2013 34<\/li>\n<li>14 (gray) \u2013 10<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition the odd pins of the flat cable should be grounded. Like the original author, I used the ground of the audio output, since in my setup the audio is transferred through the SCART cable anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Some images work, some not. I&#8217;m so green with Thomson that I can&#8217;t really pinpoint whether it&#8217;s a question of the HxC, a bad cable or the image conversion. The normal tool seems to convert .sap and .fd images, but not all of them are created equal. For example, one .fd I found seemed to be double sided. Need to dig deeper into it at some point.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 16%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2119 gallery-columns-6 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/14dinni.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/14dinni-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/tomppakaapeli.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/tomppakaapeli-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another victory for HxC, even if a narrow one this time. I managed to connect the floppy emulator to my Thomson TO8 and even load some files. The plug is a bit problematic big 14-pin DIN, but luckily the same connector was used on Atari ST for external floppy. Thus, I bought an ST cable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-laitteet","category-retro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2123,"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119\/revisions\/2123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}