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.

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…

2 GB disk image on a Mac desktop

2 GB Disk Images with Floppy Emu

A few months ago I added a hard disk feature to Floppy Emu: HD20-compatible disk emulation, with disk images up to 2 GB! Unfortunately many people didn’t see the news, and I continue hearing from folks who are unaware their…

Pile of DB-19 connectors

DB-19 Madness

I have the DB-19 connectors. They’re mine, all mine! MINE!! MWAAAHAHAHAHA!!!!! *Cough* Sorry about that, I don’t know came over me. So the great DB-19 panic of 2015 has ended, and I’ve got 581 of these metal and plastic beauties.…

Daisy chain board on a Mac floppy port

Macintosh Disk Daisy Chaining

   Floppy Emu was originally developed to be purely a floppy disk emulator for the Macintosh. More recently, I added the ability to emulate a hard disk too, for those Mac models that support Apple’s original HD20 hard drive. This…

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