Year 2015

Homemade serial adapter for the Lisa

Lisa Floppy Emu, Looking Good

Watch this video on YouTube I’ve been crawling slowly closer to a working floppy emulator for the Apple Lisa, using my existing Floppy Emu hardware. I’ve now got something that’s broadly usable for emulation of Macintosh disks on the Lisa…

Mac ROM-inator kit board

ROM-inator Back in Stock

The Mac ROM-inator kit is back in stock! The ROM-inator replaces the stock ROM with 1MB of re-writable flash ROM in a Macintosh Plus, 512Ke, 512K, or 128K – making it possible to do all sorts of crazy customizations! The…

Comparing two compiled Floppy Emu binaries

Floppy Emu AVRGCC Mystery Behavior

For a while I’ve been struggling with occasional mystery bugs when making changes to the Floppy Emu AVR microcontroller firmware. I’ll make some seemingly innocuous code changes, and completely unrelated things will break. Frequently I’ll change something in a menu…

Steve Jobs with an Apple Lisa

Lisa Emu, Day 3

I always operate my computer on a mahogany desk, while wearing a suit and tie. Don’t you? There’s been no progress on the Lisa disk emulation itself since my last update, but I’ve spent some time getting the Lisa into…

Lisa Simpson at an Apple Lisa

Lassoing the Lisa

Floppy Emu for Lisa progress report: I now have a firmware version that sort-of-works on the Lisa, when using Macintosh disk images, and running Macworks Plus on the Lisa. I can read from an emulated 400K Macintosh disk as well…

Lisa running MacWorks Plus

Apple Lisa Floppy Emulation

The Lisa computer was Apple’s precursor to the Macintosh, and it shared a lot of the same hardware and software. I’m going to look at adding Lisa support to my Floppy Emu disk emulator for Macintosh. The Emu can already…

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