Re: Apple ][ using PC floppy

[magnusfalkirk <dean.phares@gmail.com>]

On Dec 30, 7:15 pm, alex.freed....@gmail.com wrote:
> On Dec 30, 3:22 pm, nyder <nyder...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm a little lost as the useful purpose of this.   while i understand
> > 5.25 dd floppies are hard to get, soon the 3.5 floppies are going to
> > be hard to get.   Computers don't come with floppy drives anymore.
>
> > wouldn't it be more practical to make a board that converts possible
> > disk images to "virtual floppies" that the computer will just see as a
> > floppy?  besides maybe a device driver to control which image your
> > loading, you wouldn't have to hack the OS to get a fix that would
> > break other floppy drives.
>
> Funny that you mention it: a device pretty close to what you describe
> does exist.
> My PseudoDisk ][.
> Seehttp://mirrow.com/FPGApple/pseudodisk.html
>
> It uses .NIB images on a FAT formatted MMC/SD card as virtual
> floppies. No patches needed.
> It can also work with "hard disk" ProDOS images up to 32MB each, read
> and write real fast.
> Unfortunately there was very limited public interest in this (open
> source) project and only one person
> participated in the firmware development. Coincidentally the author of
> this project - vladitx.
> The main problem is that one need to reset the PseudoDisk to get to
> the firmware that allows
> to select an image to use. It's easy enough to write a simple program
> on the Apple side to do it,
> but it won't help to change the "disk" in the middle of a game.
>
> -Alex.

Another option is this: http://www.thesvd.com/SVD/ with this you can
hook an Apple II up to a modern PC/Mac and use the disk images that
you have on your hard drive on the Apple II.

Dean