Catweasel opinions, sources of info etc.

[Jules Richardson]

OK, thinking about getting a catweasel board for the museum. 

1) What's the official homepage for the board? A google search suggested
http://www.jschoenfeld.com but that site seems horribly incomplete and
out of date.

2) Opinions of the board would be much appreciated, particularly in the
context of what it *can't* do, how easy it is to code for, how easy it
is to get hold of others' code to handle a particular format (rather
than reinventing the wheel), how well the board copes with media errors
etc.


The other option's the Torch Manta board, for which I do at least have
full schematics, PAL equations etc. - downside being that it'll only
handle FM/MFM data (and as mentioned on the list in the past, there
isn't even one particular standard of MFM).

We must have around a thousand different machines covering a *lot* of
different manufacturers, hence being able to cope with hard & soft
sectored disks and all manner of encodings is important. In a lot of
cases, getting the machines up and running might be a long-term goal, so
preservation of the media using 'alien' hardware is an issue.

cheers

Jules