You will need an SD memory card for use with Floppy Emu. Both standard SD and SDHC cards are supported.Smaller capacity cards typically provide better performance - use a 4GB or smaller card if possible. The card should be formatted as FAT32. Most new cards are already pre-formatted as ...
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Floppy Emu was developed here at Big Mess o’ Wires, over a period of several years. You can view the tech planning, problems, and progress reports fromthe development blogif you’re interested in its history and operation. There’s a wealth of information on all the nitty gritty details ...
To correctly model a Macintosh floppy disk, the disk image must be encoded into a series of virtual tracks and sectors, with the proper low-level layout, header, footer, checksum, and GCR disk byte format. This encoding is planned to be performed on the fly by a microcontroller. The curre...
When you program this firmware to your Floppy Emu hardware, it will no longer function as a floppy drive emulator until you program it again with the old firmware. Before you begin, take note of what firmware version you’re currently using. This is displayed on the LCD for a few seconds...
Today I’m happy to share a long-overdue new product announcement, as well as a firmware update for the BMOW Floppy Emu disk emulator. The new product is an updated Macintosh ROM SIMM, theMac ROM-inator II Carbon, which has replaced the ROM-inator II Atom. The Carbon has already been ...
Cable is only 13″ long and need to be connected internally in the Apple III (to boot from), which mean the EMU will either be on the back of the computer (not ideal) or I’ll have the cable running trough the cover, and it becomes ugly (or a Big Mess of Wires, your choice!)...
I’ve already invested money and time securing parts for planned future manufacturing runs of the Floppy Emu disk emulator and the ADB/USB Wombat input converter, expected roughly six months in the future. This already makes me nervous. 67 weeks “estimated” for the Lattice parts is just too...