Apple II Hard Disk Emulation
Smartport hard disk emulation is now working on Floppy Emu, with my latest firmware! This mounts an SD memory card as an external 32 MB hard disk, on Apple II machines with Smartport support: the GS, or //c with ROM…
Year 2015
Smartport Hard Drives for Apple II
Some progress at last: Floppy Emu is now partly working as an external Smartport hard drive for the Apple II GS. This should provide functionality similar to the Focus Drive, CFFA 3000, or other solid-state hard drive solutions, for Apple…
Apple IIc ROM Upgrade
The more I learn about the Apple II world, the stranger it seems. Who knew the Apple IIc went through four different ROM versions, each with different capabilities, but mentioned nowhere in the model number or product label? I recently…
Apple II Firmware and Mods
Judging from the Apple II questions I’ve received, my commentary has left a lot of people confused. Sorry everyone! Here’s a recap of Apple II disk support for Floppy Emu. I’ll try to clarify the current status of Floppy Emu…
Missing Pull-up, Sad Trombone
Wah wah wah waaaaaaah. In the battle for 5.25 inch Apple II disk write emulation, it seems I declared victory too soon. While write support works great in many situations, it doesn’t work at all in others. The problem is…
5.25 Inch Disk Write Support
Whew! Floppy Emu write emulation for 5.25 inch Apple II disks is finally working. That was a painful issue to resolve, because writes to the 5.25 inch emulated disk were working fine in my controlled tests, but things went haywire…
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