I did some surgery on the Yellowstone board, in an attempt to address major problems with power supply noise and data bus overshoot, previously discussed in Apple II Card Electrical Woes and Yellowstone Arrgh. I replaced the 74LVC245 that drives…
Floppy Emu uses an 84×48 graphical LCD display. It’s just a low-resolution 1-bit display, but it’s fast and easy to use, and has a nice built-in backlight. The display is actually a clone of the old Nokia 5110 phone display,…
I’m still struggling with these Yellowstone card electrical problems, but getting nowhere. Very frustrating. I’ve focused my attention on the large amount of overshoot on the data bus, and the power supply fluctuations, under the theory that minimizing those will…
The digital abstraction of zeroes and ones is lovely, but electronics debugging often requires a deeper look into the realm of analog signals. That’s the story of my Yellowstone FPGA-based disk controller for Apple II, and it’s slowly driving me…
Want to add new features to your old Mac? The Mac ROM-inator II hardware for vintage Macintosh is on sale at a special price for a limited time. The ROM-inator II SIMM replaces the stock Macintosh IIx, IIcx, IIci, IIfx,…
After a long absence, the Mac ROM-inator Kit is back in stock at the BMOW store. The ROM-inator replaces the stock 64K or 128K of ROM in a compact Macintosh with a full 1 MB of flash memory. Once installed,…
I’ve discovered a troubling problem with the Yellowstone disk controller for Apple II, and I’m unsure how to debug it. When it’s functioning as a Liron clone, Yellowstone isn’t playing nicely with other cards like a stock Disk II controller…
BMOW’s Floppy Emu disk emulator for vintage Apple computers is back in stock. Get yours now at the BMOW store.
FPGA-based disk control for Apple II is finally working! Six months ago, I began designing a universal disk controller card for the Apple II family. Apple made a bewildering number of different disk controller cards in the 1970s and 80s,…
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