Re: Apple IIGS to TV?

["sfahey" <sfahey@a2central.com.remove-w2d-this>]

  To: limtc
<thyechean@gmail.com> wrote:

> Someone wrote me and say I can use a USB floppy drive on the Mac - I
> assume this won't work unless that drive is a SuperDrive, right?

You can't use a USB floppy drive, they use MFM encoding, whereas the Apple
II drives use GCR.

The SuperDrive for the GS (and old Macs) is a HD 3.5 drive. To use it at
it's full capacity in a GS, you need the Apple 3.5 Controller (semi hard to
find, usually expensive). A "Superdrive" connected to the GS smartport
performs as a standard 800K 3.5 drive. What made the SuperDrive "super" was
it's ability read MFM and GCR disks... Though writing MFM could be
considered dicey by some.

In Mac OS X terms, a SuperDrive is a DVD -r/+r RW etc....
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