I looked around a bit recently on what’s possible to do with the USB port of Nereid on X68000, and saw that the currently available drivers seem to be:
- Mouse
- Gamepad
- USB Floppy drive
… but I couldn’t find anyone that have written drivers for using USB memory sticks as hard drives.
I fucked around a bit with Claude and hey, now we have a driver that can do that.
Have been messing around with this quite a bit now and seems to work really well. Since the drive mounts as FAT16 instead of using binary images like BlueSCSI, it’s now extremely easy to transmit files between my computer and the X68000!
Since this is just something I shat out kindof quickly with a LLM, I can’t say I’m particularily proud of this thing, but it’s a weird new world we live in now when making these things is suddenly easy.
If I were to implement this myself, it would have taken me weeks/months of research to figure out how to approach it. Now I can just prompt some machine in the cloud and it spits out a surprisingly well written device driver for and old machine like this.
Things are getting weird.