Re: Blue ...

[schaf@meadow.muc.de (Soenke Behrens)]

Hi there,

> I think I have this right. Has anyone heard of the "Blue Disk" (perhaps a
> card or software)?
>  It is supposed to enable IBM disks on an Apple // gs. Can anyone give me
> some information?

'sho 'nuff, brotha. Right on. Totally tubular, man.

The BlueDisk is hardware (with some software at the side, like drivers).
It enables you to use PC-style floppy devices. So far, devices supported
by software are:

- 5.25" disk drives, DD and HD
- 3.5" disk drives, DD, HD and ED

Yet to come and "in the works" by a "third party" is software support
for floppy-style tape drives (Colorado, Conner, you know, the really
cheap DC2000 ones).

In other words: Use this card to hook cheap PC floppy drives to your GS
or enhanced //e. The supported capacities (with GS/OS) are:

- 5.25": 360k (DD), 1.2MB (HD)
- 3.5": 720/800k (DD), 1.44/1.6MB (HD), 2.88MB (ED)

For the terminally confused: These are PC style floppy drives, they will
not read nor write the 800k Apple (GCR) format. The 1.44MB format is
compatible with the SuperDrive, though.

This card provides the hardware for larger capacity disks, on the software
side Peter Watson's MS-DOS tools will let you format and write MS-DOS
disks, and GS/OS and its FSTs will let you read/write ProDOS and HFS disks
and read MS-DOS disks.

For more detailed information, contact the maker of this card (SHH
Systeme) at J.LANGE7@genie.geis.com

Soenke
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