Re: Apple IIc modifications

[Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Egan Ford <datajerk@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Finally you can hardly find HD 1.4mb disks now let alone DD disks so
>> your going to have to order them, at that point once you get disks
>> ordered and shipped, a computer that can actually read the silly
>> things in apple format, and fuss with making a mix disk you might as
>> well just get a box of 5.25 DD disks and use as normal, or use
>> something like apple game server for the programs that load fully in
>> ram ... killing the need for floppies anyway.
> 
> You can cover the hole on a HD disk and use as a DD disk.  I do it all
> the time without any issues.
> 
> That said, I completely agree with your assessment.
> 
> I'll also add that if I want to play II games on the big screen with
> minimum fuss, then I'll use an emulator.

Apparently it's been a while since this topic came up here...

HD 3.5" disks are _not_ reliable media for Apple's DD drives. They may
appear to work for a while, but not uniformly on all drives, and after some
time they often lose data, becoming unreadable. 

DD disks are still available and are the _only_ reliable media for Apple II
drives (except, of course, the Apple 3.5 "SuperDrive", which requires a
special controller). 

-michael - NadaNet 3.1 and AppleCrate II: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon