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.
I’ve been working on optimizing the Floppy Emu design in preparation for making a custom circuit board, and as always I’m faced with a dizzying number of choices and potential trade-offs. The design calls for a Xilinx XC9572XL CPLD along…
Here’s a brief video of Macintosh Floppy Emu in action, booting a Mac Plus from the emulated floppy, and then reading the floppy using Disk Copy 4.2. Watch this video on YouTube
The Macintosh Floppy Emu works! No, not the flightless Australian bird, but the SD card 800K floppy drive emulator for classic Macintosh computers. I’ve been tinkering with this project for a while now, and wrote about it here several times before.…
Watch this video on YouTube Exciting news on the Classic Macintosh Floppy Disk Emulator: I successfully transferred two sectors from a virtual 800K floppy disk, and used it to boot a Mac Plus to the “Happy Mac” screen. This proves…
A couple of months ago, I posted a design sketch for an SD-card floppy disk drive emulator for classic Macintosh computers. Recently I finally got motivated enough to start building it. Using one of the oh-so-rare DB-19 connectors that I purchased a…
A few weeks ago, I posted some thoughts on an SD-card based floppy emulator for classic Macintosh computers. This idea has been on my mind again recently, and I’m trying to determine whether this could be done solely with a…
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