#floppyEmu

2025-04-07

The floppy emulator HxC by Jean-Francois Del Nero completely replaces the floppy drive (of an Amiga) with an electronic device. The project, which was launched in 2006, is available in two versions, with a SD card port or with USB port. Now the new version 2.16.13.1 is available:

amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-

#Amiga #FloppyEmu

2025-03-24

The floppy emulator HxC by Jean-Francois Del Nero completely replaces the floppy drive (of an Amiga) with an electronic device.
A new version of the HxC floppy emulator software has now been released.

amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-

#Amiga #FloppyEmu

Micheal :cursor:micheal@ecliptik.com
2025-02-08

Wrote about how I enhanced my Macintosh 512Ke with USB4VC, BlueSCSI, PicoRC, RGB2HDMI, FloppyEMU and Basilisk II to do modern Internet things like browse Gopher.

https://www.ecliptik.com/Enhancing-my-Macintosh-512Ke/

#retrocomputing #macintosh #vintagemacintosh #bluescsi #floppyemu #macintoshplus #gopher #basiliskii

Enhanced Macintosh 512Ke booting from a System 6 ROM
Ted C. Howardtedchoward
2024-08-05

Following up on this. I removed the SuperSerial card that was in slot 1, and now Pascal boots. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Ted C. Howardtedchoward
2024-07-11

I've also tried different versions of Apple Pascal, and even a Pascal application (ThinkTank). I get the same behavior every time.

FWIW: These same images all work in the Virtual ][ emulator.

Ted C. Howardtedchoward
2024-07-11

I’m not sure I did the best job describing the behavior, so here’s a video.

Ted C. Howardtedchoward
2024-07-11

I’m trying to boot a “pascal formatted” disk on my . I insert the disk, turn the machine on, it reads from disk, clears the screen and then starts beeping. It doesn’t stop until i turn the machine off. Same behavior with pascal formatted images in the .

Where should I start investigating? The disks/images?
The disk controller card?
The drive and floppy emu?
Something else?

Ted C. Howardtedchoward
2024-07-07

The other annoyance is that any time I copy a new image to the SD card, I get a “file is not contiguous” error when I try to use the new file. I have to format and copy over all the files to make it work. Every time.

Ted C. Howardtedchoward
2024-07-07

So I got a for my . It’s pretty cool to be able to use an SD card to emulate floppy disks.

Unfortunately it doesn’t want to boot Pascal disks. The computer just starts beeping repeatedly. Very frustrating.

Javmaster.bsky.socialJavmaster
2024-04-23

Shipping first batch this week! Thanks for your trust and support!

2024-03-29

Hey #MARCHintosh people...

I've posted a little about having found a Mac 512k (my first Mac!) in the garbage room at my office -- it works! I ordered a #FloppyEmu and the machine boots.

I've had to order a mouse off eBay, and it'll be a few weeks before it gets here.

Here's the question: Is it possible to emulate the M0100 mouse? I have a flipper zero (which already has a Bluetooth mouse emulator) which is probably up to the task.

Is there any documentation on the mouse protocol? Is there a hardware widget to convert it to ADB, PS/2, or any other mouse type?

Thx!

paulrickardspaulrickards
2023-11-14

Wait, what’s this? It looks like an Atari ST screen? And it’s running on my ?!

This is from Digital Research (the CP/M folks) for the .

The Lisa and GEMDOS was the first development kit for Atari ST TOS which I find fascinating.

It can boot from both floppy () or install it to the ProFile ().

I followed these instructions:

68kmla.org/bb/index.php?thread

A messy desk with stacks of free circuit boards to the right, a display at the top showing the GEM desktop, a mouse at the bottom, and lots of wires running haphazardly everywhere. A screenshot of the GEM desktop environment. It looks almost like the Atari ST TOS desktop and fairly reminiscent of the LisaOS.
2023-06-15

Seems to work! Look at me, word processing on a Macintosh Plus! ... without a keyboard...

😭

(It's okay, I've got an adapter on its way for that too)

#macintoshplus #floppyemu

Macintosh Plus booting from SCSI SD, then reading floppy image from Floppy Emu device. Running MacWrite 2.0 from "floppy".
2023-06-15

All assembled. Well, apart from having to disassemble again to add the cable...

Totally. Deliberate.

#macintoshplus #floppyemu

Assembled Floppy Emu device in acrylic case.
Javmaster@bsky.socialjavmaster@bitbang.social
2023-06-11

All day printing my next project!
#Apple #AppleII #3Dprinting #3DModel #FloppyEmu

paulrickardspaulrickards
2023-03-08

Hey so I got the A-Max cartridge working somehow. I removed and tested three chips, all good. Tried it again and now it’s working! I can plug in the into it and access native Mac disk images now. Here’s !

Composite of several photos showing chips removed from the A-Max cartridge and tested in a Backbit Chip Tester Pro, all saying passed. Photo of a CRT monitor showing an Amiga CDTV booting MacWrite saying #MARCHintosh
Kabootie computeyjcgraybill@oldbytes.space
2023-01-08

It all works great! Now… what should I play? #AppleIIc #FloppyEmu

Apple IIc computer with Castle Wolfenstein on a monitor.

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