Peltier Cedric wrote:
Seeing my old //c lying together with an old PC on the same desk, I remembered the need of a mass storage for the //c.This is how the project began.I made a specific cable to connect the smartport of the //c to the // port of the PC, and started to write the software to emulate an hard drive for the //c. All seem to work fine now: from the //c I can format, read, write, and even boot from the emulated 32 mega bytes hard drive (under prodos). So it's time to do this announce, I think this project will be of interest for some of you, right ?
In theory, yes, but...
Cons: - require a 486 class PC, no pentium
This is a major hurdle for most folks. Even a packrate like me has barely one machine of that vintage functioning.
There are plenty of examples out there showing how such a driver might be done for Linux. Poke around for sio2pc (Atari) and Drivewire (Tandy CoCo).