Re: Apple //c smartport compact flash adapter

[Robert Justice <rjustice@internode.on.net>]

I agree with your thoughts Michael, i would have thought that
ciderpress would write the data to an SD card the same as a CF card. I
haven't tried, I think i will have a go soon to build a version with
an SD Card instead of a CF. I'll find out then for sure :-)

/Rob

On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:23:00 -0800, "Michael J. Mahon"
<mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:

>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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