Re: Remote Virtual Disk Drive Emulator

["Vince Briel" <vbriel@comcast.net>]

I'm suppose to be helping Eric with this but I've had no free time. His 
"dongle" appears to be close to what is needed but I don't know what his 
progress is.

What he needs to do to make it work with the apple is make the dongle 
convert apple disk signals into standard pc style drive signals and timing 
so his SVD doesn't notice any difference. This is harder than it sounds and 
if somebody can help him I'm sure he would let them help.

Vince

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Replica 1 the Apple 1 clone
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"RedskullDC" <RDC@oz.org> wrote in message 
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> "Great Hierophant" <great_hierophant@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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>> I'm not sure that the subject is the right label for the concept I am
>> asking about.  What I want to do is the following:
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>> I want to use a real Apple II with disk programs but without the disks
>> themselves.  All those disk images on a PC are difficult enough to copy
>> back onto disks, some like the .nib images are close to impossible.
>> However, isn't it possible to have the PC emulate an Apple II disk
>> drive and send a cable from the PC to the disk controller in slot #6?
>> After all, the Disk II is something of a dumb device, it just reads
>> when it gets the signal and writes when it gets another signal.  That
>> way an Apple II can run disk images ff a PC as if it were running the
>> disks themselves.  Even better, the disk can become a lot faster,
>> eliminating load times unless they are truly necessary.
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>> Feasible?
>>
>> GH
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> You mean something like this:
> http://www.rothfus.com/SVD/  ?
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> Author says he is working on Apple 2 support for the device.
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