PicoIDE – An open IDE/ATAPI drive emulator

Fun seeing this posted - I'm the creator of the project. While it's meant to be a generic IDE/ATAPI emulator the two main use cases I envisioned for the project are in the area of retro computing: CD-ROM under MS-DOS and Windows 9x, where software-only virtual drive emulation options are lacking or nonexistent, and IDE hard drive emulation on early IDE machines where the drive geometries are fixed.

Since the project has been announced, lots of people have come out of the woodwork with other fun potential use cases, such as CD-ROM replacement in arcade cabinets and the Dreamcast, and hard drive replacement in multitrack recorders and samplers.

This is really cool. I'm glad people are out there making this stuff even if I'll never have a use for it.

What are the use cases for this? I'm guessing retro computing and possibly very old machines tied to very obsolete hardware that can't be virtualized (e.g. manufacturing controls).

I've been waiting on something like this for years, I'm surprised it took so long for someone to do it since there's been those gotek floppy drive emulators and things like bluescsi for forever.

This seriously just made my day.

Tangential question: does anyone know if there's a ~similar device to replace/upgrade a Toshiba T1100's floppy drive?

A friend found a T1100 for me and I'm just trying to think of the best way to boot it. Alternatively... I could get a USB floppy disk drive and a fresh floppy, and write old-school DOS to it, at least to get started?

Thanks!

Here's some more information: https://www.hackster.io/news/ian-scott-s-picoide-turns-a-ras...

Based on RP2350. Perhaps because RP2350 provides more GPIO pins?

Where can I find the picoIDE schematics & code? All I find is picoGus.

Oh my god this is like the ODE (optical drive emulators) that people use on retro consoles!

Hopefully this can work on PS2-based Namco System 246 systems, would be amazing if it can.

This is really cool! I like the attention to detail on the front panel, it's something I'd be proud of showing on a carefully built retro PC. I could see using this over CF to IDE adapters which work well but this is a cleaner solution.

Good luck with your launch, I'll be happy to order one!

Beautiful piece of hardware. Thanks

Well sounds like I may have jumped the gun yet again. I managed to nab a IDE Simulator v3 by Tattiebogle in Sept. Maybe I should have waited for this. This has happened to me before so I wonder if maybe word got out that this was coming so others got their products out asap?

Is CD-ROM subchannel data accurately emulated for both audio and data modes?

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