Re: EDD Plus Project

[jonnosan <jonnosan@gmail.com>]

On Jan 13, 2:59 pm, "Bryan Parkoff" <nos...@nospam.com> wrote:
>
> >BTW if the intention is to come up with a hardware device that allows
> >images for emulators to be made from copy-protected disks, it might
> >make sense to make it a stand alone device or a PC accessory, not an
> >apple ii card. What if you had a box that connected to a PC via USB,
> >and an apple ii disk drive, and appeared to the PC to be a mass
> >storage device containing a single .NIB file (which you could then
> >read and write using ordinary PC applications).
>
>     I deobt Apple II Disk Drive may work with PC via USB.  It depends on the
> exact timing.  You need to run on real Apple II in order to work with
> copy-protection schemes.
>
I'm sure you're correct about limitations of .NIB. But I would think
that anything that a real apple II could do, some firmware running in
a USB device could do just as well? What I imagined was a little box
with a connector for a disk ii cable on one end, and a USB connector
at the other. There would also be a little button on the box. When you
press the button, the microntroller starts the disk drive spinning,
then reads in each (full/half/ or quarter?) track in turn, and builds
up a .nib or .2mg or whatever format file which is stored on a flash
drive which is also embedded in the box. When the box is connected to
a USB host (e.g. a PC) then the file stored on flash is visible.