Re: Apple ][ using PC floppy

[nyder <nyder.23@gmail.com>]

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.

And i am not knocking your work, it just seems to me if your going to
try to replace hard to get stuff, you might as well try to make it as
future proof as possible.

Of course, my props go to you for doing this, since it gives me
something to study for what i want to do.   And in truth, it does look
like it's not going to cost much to make.

And the the wierd thing is, you look very familiar in the vids, though
i'm sure i've never seen you before.  lol

hmm, just got an idea, since you can easily fit 3 400k images, or 2
800k images on a HD floppy, why not make it so the computer see it's a
triple or dual drive, and that way you don't have to hack the dos for
track size?  You can leave it as a, well, guess not dos floppy because
of the lame 1.4mb crap, but maybe as a some sort of format so you can
squeeze 1.6m out of it (since the 3.5 are actually 2m disks)

just a thought