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.

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…

5.25 inch floppy disk

5.25 Inch Disk Firmware

The updated Apple II firmware for Floppy Emu is now available! This update adds 5.25 inch 140K disk image support, and is compatible with any Apple II model, using the standard Floppy Emu hardware. Download apple-II-0.1C-F3 and try it out!…

Oregon Trail: "FloppyEmu has cholera"

Floppy Emu Has Cholera

Achievement unlocked! 5.25 inch 140K disk emulation for Apple II is now working for Floppy Emu. I booted up my Apple IIe with an Oregon Trail disk image, lost some oxen, got cholera, and died. The 5.25 inch disk emulation…

Disk II signals when mounting a disk

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…

Apple IIgs 3.5 drive adapter for Floppy Emu

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…

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