Smartmedia Card Spec Opened, available free (2000)

My first digital camera used Smartmedia. I had a 32MB card, if memory serves. I could pull pictures off via a serial interface, which was slow and required a proprietary app, or via a FlashPath[0] adapter. Sadly, FlashPath adapters require a driver and aren't actually emulating a floppy diskette. Putting the reader into a floppy diskette shell and using the disk interface to transfer data is still a pretty cool hack, though.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlashPath

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1970-01-01 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Before anyone asks, it was cell phones going stratospheric in popularity, with T-flash (sdcard) storage that won the flash format war (excusing USB obviously). Everything else was left to rot.

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brudgers 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Pdf of Smartmedia Card spec.

https://affon.narod.ru/CARDS/elec10ei.pdf

Because 5v Smartmedia cards are rare and I have a Roland MC505 that can use them, I am wondering if it is possible to create a hardware emulator using an Arduino.

	▲	happycube 11 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		RP2350. 5v tolerant IO if set up correctly, enough GPIO's and the PIO's to trigger everything at once, and more than enough speed to emulate flash. Smart(sic)Media is just a NAND flash interface really.

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happycube an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Ah, the 2000's, when CompactFlash cards weren't that compact, and SmartMedia wasn't at all smart.