Post #3966497
2026-07-20 18:05 UTC
What might be fun is showing a graph of the current motor speed in RPM live in the emulator.
Here's a matplotlib chart of the current placeholder values i have for the acceleration function. This is based on a TEAC FD-55 manual that referenced spin-up time as 400ms.
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@gloriouscow@oldbytes.space 2026-07-20 18:07
What's also important is to have a bit of a wobble. Maybe not on PC, but a funny thing happens on a Macintosh, if you have a perfectly constant RPM like an emulator might produce, the Macintosh floppy drive routines will actually divide by zero, because they're trying to adjust for error that does not exist. They never assumed there would be 0 error.