A huge thanks to Zaxon/Piotr Bugaj for providing the DDI3 USB Floppy Emulator for the Amstrad CPC 464 for this review and we also hope to review the Amstrad CPC 6128 USB floppy emulator as well in the future. I'd highly recommend heading on over to the store page and picking one up, and also to talk to Piotr on Facebook if you have any concerns or want to know about other incredible hardware he has for sale. Perhaps this comes with the retail product and not my one, however for people less savvy on the HxC I think this would be a great addition.įor what you are getting though, you really can't ask for anything more for the Amstrad CPC 464 for playing games through a memory stick. That is the need for a picture diagram with instructions with the item showing you what button does what, how you actually convert the games and the need for the HxC files such as the HXCSDFE.CFG mentioned above. Aren't you glad I'm here to tell you that )īut there is a negative though and it's not the device itself. One way to get this file was using the HxCFloppyEmulator V2.1.4.0, selecting the HxC Floppy Emulator settings, selecting the Amstrad as an option in the top right and making sure it saves the config file to the memory stick.

But again I knew from experience what the HXCSDFE.CFG file was, it is basically a configuration file to be able to show and play the games using the HxC ( The short description ). Now if you've ever purchased an SD2IEC for the C64 or even the C64 Monosoft Princess, it has a guide and also tells you to just unpack a provided zip with a teaser of games to the C64 device, run a specific command and away you go.īut with the DDI3 USB Floppy Emulator for the Amstrad CPC 464 it was a little more involved with no guides available when purchasing. See the thing is, we as reviewers have to look at it from a perspective of someone who knows nothing about the HxC and also what we come across trying to be a simplistic as possible, plug in and play. It kept on complaining about a missing HXCSDFE.CFG file. Placing the USB Memory Stick back into the slot and turning the Amstrad back on, we ran into our first problem.

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