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.

Floppy Emu LCD contrast setting

LCD Contrast Adjustment in Firmware

Floppy Emu uses a generic LCD that’s a clone of the display in the Nokia 5110 phone. It’s a nice little bitmapped display with a good range of configuration options, including the ability to set the display’s contrast level through…

Floppy Emu disk selection menu

Selling the Floppy Emu

It’s been about a month since I began selling my Floppy Emu disk emulator for vintage Macs, and it’s time for a progress report. It’s been a real learning experience with the hardware, as well as on the “business” side…

Ten Floppy Emu boards

Floppy Emu Back in Stock

Macintosh Floppy Emu is back in stock. The elves have been working overtime to build more of these. Get yours today before they sell out again! Floppy Emu is a prototype floppy disk drive emulator for vintage Macs. It uses an…

Floppy Emu in front of a Mac Plus

Floppy Emu – Ready For Sale

The Floppy Emu Macintosh Disk Emulator is finally available for sale! Get one now for $89. Each one is hand-assembled, programmed, and tested by me. After more than two years in development, and two months of preparation for “production”, I’m…

Six Floppy Emus

Manufacturing is Hard

There’s a big difference between building one of something, and making a repeatable process to build 10 of them, or 100. Unfortunately I’m learning that the hard way while I try to get some more Floppy Emu boards ready to…

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