Category Floppy Emu

A floppy disk drive emulator for Macintosh computers, using an SD memory card and custom hardware to replace a 3.5″ disk drive and floppy disk.

DB-19 male connectors

DB-19 Group Buy

Holy cow, this is actually happening! After over a year of searching what seems like every warehouse and basement on the planet to scrounge for DB-19 connectors, I’m finally moving forward with the manufacture of new ones. As far as I’m aware,…

New Demo Video

I put together a new demo video for the Floppy Emu Model B, since the old videos had become hopelessly out of date. Enjoy! Watch this video on YouTube

DB-19 substitute adapters, front

DB-19 Substitute, Take Two

BMOW’s product Floppy Emu needs a male DB-19 connector to mate with vintage Apple computers, but these connectors haven’t been manufactured in decades. For two years I’ve been scraping by with “new old stock” DB-19’s from warehouses around the world,…

Floppy Emu showing "No SD card" error 10:5

SD Card SPI Initialization

What happens when two devices share the same SPI bus? With a good design, each device is enabled one at a time for use of the bus, and they coexist without problems. With a bad design, SPI communication that’s intended…

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