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Re: Catweasel?

Mike Maginnis wrote:

On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 11:56:19 -0800, "Michael J. Mahon"
<mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:



Mike Maginnis wrote:


On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 00:05:15 -0800, "Michael J. Mahon"
<mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:




RedskullDC wrote:



Hi Mike,

I have a V4 in one of my PC's.

Use it to read/write my C64 and Amiga disks to/from
disk files.
Previous versions of the drivers were a bit flaky with WinXP,
though that was corrected in the last driver release.

Also works fine under WinUAE (www.winuae.net)
if you prefer to work in the native Amiga environment.

There are also linux based tools for TRS-80 and CP/M (I think)
if you prefer that.

Well worth the investment.


But still no Apple II support?
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Came across this today - I had forgotten about these things. Anyone
have any experience with version IV? Praise? Horror stories?

How does this measure up against some of the other custom drive
contollers out there?



According to this page:

http://www.nishtek.com/cw.html

the board supports "DOS 3.3 and up."


I knew that the card is capable of reading Apple II disks, but
there is still no application software that makes it easy to
use for Apple-related work.

It has never gained enough traction in the Apple II community
to warrant any development, apparently.


Interesting, and probably enough justification to avoid it for now.  I
wonder if CiderPress would be useful with this.


I think it would be a great synergy, with CiderPress' support for
Apple II file systems.  But it's kind of a chicken and egg problem.

A further complication is that 5.25" drives on PCs are pretty rare
these days.

-michael

Music synthesis for 8-bit Apple II's!
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