Quest for a Decent LCD
Floppy Emu uses an 84×48 graphical LCD display. It’s just a low-resolution 1-bit display, but it’s fast and easy to use, and has a nice built-in backlight. The display is actually a clone of the old Nokia 5110 phone display,…
Year 2018
Yellowstone Arrgh
I’m still struggling with these Yellowstone card electrical problems, but getting nowhere. Very frustrating. I’ve focused my attention on the large amount of overshoot on the data bus, and the power supply fluctuations, under the theory that minimizing those will…
Apple II Card Electrical Woes
The digital abstraction of zeroes and ones is lovely, but electronics debugging often requires a deeper look into the realm of analog signals. That’s the story of my Yellowstone FPGA-based disk controller for Apple II, and it’s slowly driving me…
Mac ROM-inator II Sale!
Want to add new features to your old Mac? The Mac ROM-inator II hardware for vintage Macintosh is on sale at a special price for a limited time. The ROM-inator II SIMM replaces the stock Macintosh IIx, IIcx, IIci, IIfx,…
Mac ROM-inator Kit Back in Stock
After a long absence, the Mac ROM-inator Kit is back in stock at the BMOW store. The ROM-inator replaces the stock 64K or 128K of ROM in a compact Macintosh with a full 1 MB of flash memory. Once installed,…
Yellowstone Bugs
I’ve discovered a troubling problem with the Yellowstone disk controller for Apple II, and I’m unsure how to debug it. When it’s functioning as a Liron clone, Yellowstone isn’t playing nicely with other cards like a stock Disk II controller…
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