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KryoFlux Personal Edition Advanced
[KF-ROS-PA]

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KryoFlux is a USB-based floppy controller designed specifically for reliability, precision, and getting low-level reads suitable for software preservation.

Included in delivery:

Personal Edition Comparison
	Basic	Advanced	Premium
KryoFlux board	yes	yes	yes
Quickstart sheet	yes	yes	yes
USB cable	-	yes	yes
Floppy data cable	-	yes	yes
MOLEX / MOLEX cable	-	yes	yes
MOLEX / BERG cable	-	yes	yes
Power supply	-	-	yes

Availability of certain editions subject to availability of parts, e.g. power supply.

The Personal Edition of KryoFlux comes without a software license. The software (Disk Tool Console - DTC) is free for private, non-commercial use. Support is limited to our support forums. If you want support by email or phone, or want to use the software in a commercial or non-private environment (e.g. university, archive, museum, library), please get an institutional or commercial license. Please contact us for a quote. We will cancel orders if the customer base record or billing address are associated with a commercial entity, institution or the like.

Main features:

Read at lowest level possible - precisely sampling the magnetic flux transition timing. Custom formats? Recording scheme violations? Encodings? KryoFlux will read them all.
Save as raw stream, or export to common sector formats supporting: Acorn Electron, Apple, Amstrad CPC, Archimedes, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, BBC, Commodore 64, Commodore Amiga, MSX, IBM PC, PC-8801, Sam Coupe, Spectrum, E-MU Emulator II and many, many others.
Write back to disk. KryoFlux supports "one-click" writing of IPF files, and will soon be supporting more image formats as well.
Write blocker. Disable accidential writes by removing one jumper, impossible to work around in software.
Parallel export support. E.g. An Amiga/ST dual format disk can be written as raw stream, an ADF and an ST file, all at the same time during a single disk capture.
Intelligent software allows production of sector images for virtually all normal disks for systems containing a generic FM or MFM floppy controller. Many other weird synthesiser sample disk formats should work right out of the box.
Read variable rate "zoned CAV" disks in a normal fixed rate drive.
RoHS and WEEE compliant.
High quality immersion gold coated boards produced in cooperation with, and assembled by, Olimex Ltd.

Technical Specs:

compatible with USB 2.0 (high-speed) ports
powered by USB interface (approx. 350-500mA); floppy disk drive requires its own power supply (available separately)
Shugart (with extensions) drive interface; 34-pin dual-row header connector
developed with 3.5" Samsung SFD-321 and 5.25" Newtronics D509 drives and compatibles, also works well with selected 3" (e.g. Amstrad FDI-1) and 8" (e.g. Shugart 851; might require additional adapter) drives; other types of drives and media currently under investigation
connection of two drives supported using a dual floppy cable, one can be accessed at a time

Notes:

host software is available for Windows (XP, Vista, Windows 7 in 32 and 64-bit flavours), Mac OS X (Intel 10.5 and later) and Linux
also supports STREAM & RAW files with raw data for each cylinder/side stored in a single file - very handy for development and preservation

Download DTC here.

Please note that KryoFlux is a new product, based on a simple yet spectacular hardware design. It was originally tested and developed with a broad range of standard HD 3.5" drives, as well as some 5.25" drives. Support for 3.5" drives (e.g. Amiga, AtariST, IBM PC, many samplers and workstations) is working very well by now. It is still possible that certain brands or models may not work with the board. Solutions range from modifying software to modifying hardware. Please keep this is mind when ordering the board. We can't accept returns for a board not working with a particular drive when it does work with other ones that are compatible.

This product may only be used for lawful purposes.

Model: Rosalie, revision: D3

Available Options:
Floppy Data Cable:

For more information, please visit this products webpage.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 21 September, 2010.

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