Re: Apple //c smartport compact flash adapter

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

Robert Justice wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have been working on building a compact flash adpater that uses the
> smartport interface via the external disk connector on the Apple //c.
> I have hand wired a prototype and have this working so that i can boot
> prodos from it. 
> The firmware in the AVR supports 4 partitions on the CF. I have also
> used the dos.master games image and that works fine also.
>
> Details are in a quick write up at this link:
> http://www.users.on.net/~rjustice/SmartportCFA/SmartportCFA.htm
>
> Hope you guys find it interesting.

I certainly do!

On your web page, you say:

>Maybe then some way of switching between partitions may be needed, as
>it would be difficult to change the CF once installed. This would be
>fairly easy to implement as the Smartport calls are flexible enough to
>add some extra commands that would enable communication to the AVR from
>an apple based utility.

I would be quite satisfied with a small slot in the //c case for either
a CF card, or, preferably, an SD card.

Being able to deal with several partitions mapped as usual to slots &
drives is all I ever need.

I haven't tried it, but I'll bet that Ciderpress already handles
SD cards using a CFFA (implicit) partitioning scheme.

-michael

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