5.25 Inch Disk Kickoff
I’ve started working on Apple II 5.25 inch disk emulation for Floppy Emu. It’s still early, and it’s progressing more slowly than I expected, but I think it’ll work. It will be great to have a new mode to emulate…
Month April 2015
ROM 03 Revisited
Good news, Apple II fans! The Apple IIgs ROM 03 mystery has been solved. A few weeks ago I added new support to Floppy Emu, for emulation of 3.5 inch Apple II disks. I used it to boot my Apple…
Circuit Protection: Economics and Electronics
Remember this problem that I analyzed a year ago, with mysterious damage to the CPLD chip? I still haven’t found a permanent solution. It’s rare enough that it’s not much trouble to just repair or replace affected boards, but it’s…
Changing the Macintosh Start-Up Sound
Watch this video on YouTube Beep! Wouldn’t it be fun to customize the cheery little square wave greeting of your Mac 512K or Plus? With a Macintosh ROM-inator kit installed, now you can. This isn’t a control panel like SoundMaster,…
Apple IIgs ROM 03 Headaches
I’m still chasing an explanation for why some Apple IIgs computers won’t play nicely with Floppy Emu’s new 800K 3.5 inch Apple II disk emulation. I described the symptoms in my previous post – ProDOS and GS/OS disk images boot…
More Fun with Apple IIgs Disks
Last week I wrote about Apple II 800K disk emulation for Floppy Emu, which I used to boot my Apple IIgs. I posted the new Apple II firmware, so anybody with an Emu board and a IIgs could try it…
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