Re: Floppy Drive Emulator

[Steve Nickolas <dosius@dosius.com>]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Eric J. Rothfus wrote:

> Would anyone in this group be interested in helping with an Apple ][
> (+ & e) floppy drive emulator?
> 
> As I collect the old machines, I like to run the original software on
> them but was forever trying to find diskettes or setting up some
> transfer mechanism.  I got tired of it all and created the
> "Semi-Virtual Diskette" (SVD).
> 
> This device has an RS232 port on one side and a vintage-machine floppy
> connector on the other.  The idea is that you download a floppy image
> to the SVD (from your PC) and then boot the machine...which thinks
> it's connected to a real floppy device.  The SVD supports the REAL
> old formats...you know, those that use floppies that have less than
> 200k of capacity.
> 
> You can read more about it at www.rothfus.com/SVD.
> 
> I originally created it for the TRS-80 line, and have since expanded
> to include the Heathkit H8/H89.
> 
> Now I'm looking to tackle the Apple ][, but wanted to make sure that
> anyone cared.  If you think it would be useful, please let me know.
> More importantly, if you could Beta-test the device when it is ready
> for the Apple][, that would be great.
> 
> Also, the "driver" software is PC-based, so I could really use help
> with a Mac version.  Note that the GUI is written in TCL/TK, but there
> are 2 programs written in C.  Feel free to download the software off
> of the web-site so you can see what it is like.
> 
> Eric
> 

*_*

I so want this. T_T

I have like megs and megs of disks on my Linux box and no way to run them 
on my //e.

-uso.