Oricutron HFE

[Steve M]

Could Oricutron be used to load HFE files? Could it then be used to produce a disk image from the HFE file?

[iss]

No, Oricutron doesn't support HFE file format at all, so far.

[Chema]

[...] so far.

That is the spirit!

[xahmol]

Would love HFE support in Oricutron!
(Even better would of course be native DSK support on the Cumana Reborn)

[Chema]

In fact it does not need to support hfe directly, but any container format for which a conversion already exists. As I said before, Amstrad edsk is rather similar to Oric dsk and the HxC software can convert from hfe to it.

I put some links do information in some other post.

[Steve M]

Thanks . I'll look it up again.

I just thought that as Oricutron was the main emulator these days it'd maybe be a good idea to have it able to use Hfe files - what with all the Gotek and Cumana Reborn users. The software on those doesn't offer an easy way to convert to Dsk image - but maybe Oricutron could via copying files across from an Hfe 'disk' to an Oricutron Dsk.

If this was possible I think it'd also be useful if you could add a blank disk as easily as you could on Euphoric.

[Chema]

Mmmm... not sure I explained myself properly. I agree with you, Steve. It would be great if Oricutron supported hfe, I was just stating that, as a maybe easier alternative, it could support esdk, for which there is already a two-way conversor.