It was the summer of 1992. Nirvana smelled like teen spirit, Ross Perot was running for president, and I was a senior at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who wanted to play tetris. Looking at the options then available for…
For two decades, I’ve head my head in the sand when it comes to the topic of backups. My strategy has been: Put lots of essential, irreplaceable work-related design files on PC Every 2-3 years, copy some files to an…
Some brief updates on Floppy Emu, Plus Too, and the DiskCopy2Dsk tool: Two Apple IIc Plus testers reported this week that the Floppy Emu disk emulator is incompatible in 3.5 inch emulation mode with that machine. If you’re not familiar…
Manufacturing is hard. The thickness of my supplier’s clear acrylic material has magically increased 15%, meaning that the latest batch of Floppy Emu acrylic cases are impossible to assemble. The buttons and light pipes don’t fit in the cut-outs made…
Watch this video on YouTube After a long hiatus, there’s new progress for the Plus Too FPGA-based Macintosh replica. Till Harbaum has ported my original, unfinished design to the MiST board, and has begun making fixes and improvements. The video…
Make a Windows program by stuffing bytes into a buffer and writing it to disk: no compiler, no assembler, no linker, no nothing! It was the obvious conclusion of my recent efforts to gain more control over what goes into…
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