Re: Floppy disk emulator for Lisa

Steve, does this emulate twiggy drives at all? (or can it be done easily?)

Thanks,
Chandra

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 9:29 PM, Steve Chamberlin <steve.chamberlin_at_email.domain.hidden
> wrote:

> OK, Lisa floppy drive emulation is a success! Begone, evil rotational disk
> drives, with your failure-prone gummed-up mechanisms. The age of SD card
> Lisa floppy emulation is here!
>
> After a lot of tinkering, it's now working on the 2/5 and 2/10, for both
> Lisa-format and Mac-format disks. I'm able to boot the Lisa from the
> emulated floppy drive, and use it to install Lisa Office System and other
> apps to the HD, and copy apps and data files from the Lisa HD to the
> emulated floppy drive. It also works for Mac-format disks, when running
> under Macworks.
>
> Just download some Lisa floppy disk images from the interwebs, copy the
> disk image files to a standard SD card, and put the card in the Floppy Emu.
> From the Emu, you can select which disk image to "insert", and then the
> Lisa sees it as a normal R/W floppy disk.
>
> The last hurdle was realizing that the custom adapter I'd built to
> simultaneously connect a 400K floppy drive and a Floppy Emu was causing
> problems. After getting rid of the adapter and connecting the Emu directly,
> in place of the normal floppy drive, it's now working perfectly. There are
> still a few small loose ends to tie up, but it's basically good to go.
>
> If anyone else is interested in buying one of the floppy emulators, I have
> them for $89 at http://www.bigmessowires.com/macintosh-floppy-emu/
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
>
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