Re: A wishful thought?

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

mystix@direct.ca@direct.ca wrote:

>You the ability to use Apple drives would be more convienient than trying to
>produce images. But you're right on the issue of the SWIM chips. ROMs could be
>easily be pulled out of existing GS's, but the disk controller chips aren't
socketed.

The disk controller is the easy part.  Apple licenses and sells
the SWIM chip to third party developers.  In fact, one emulator
already uses it.

Take a look at any PC Transporter.  The reason the PCT can
make a regular 800k IIGS Apple floppy drive read and write
MFM MS-DOS 720k disks is because of the SWIM chip that
it uses.