Simon Williams wrote:
That's why I rushed out and got a new Mac in January, I'm not anti-X, but its support for classic apps is a bit dodgy, my eMac boots just fine in 9, though the lack of floppy drive is a bit of a drawback when it comes to ProDOS. AFAIK you can still get an OS9-bootable Mac, but don't quote me... Even if OSX could write ProDOS floppies, your still going to be stuck with a 1.44 MB drive which isn't exactly a2-compatible (for most of us). I still think the best thing that could happen to the A2 world would be a USB --> Disk ][ controller, but I doubt it's worth anyone's time to develop such a beast... The bottom line is that there's no reason to expect Apple to put any resources into it, it's now up to the hobbyists to start innovating...
I picked up a G4 just before christmas. I also thought this would be a good way to deal with some of the older apps. Unfortunately the last time I booted into OS 9 when I went back to OSX I had some weird graphics problems. Icons would disappear when my pointer got near then and sometimes windows and the pointer would become invisible. I couldn't find a solution so I ended up reinstalling everything. Makes me not want to boot into OS 9 again so I bought a beige Mac to run OS 9 stuff on and it reads 800k disk. A USB -> Disk II adapter would be nice but as you say not likely to happen. What there might be a small market for is a USB -> 3.5" drive adapter, the A2 superdrive or 800k variety that is. I'd happily replace my imation superdisk with one. A suitable driver would likely warm the hearts of a few PC Users that have Apple IIs. Wayne