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@rubber_jonnie do you have a floppy drive for your Apple as Well? Mine will come with a couple but no media, so just wondering on the easiest way to get stuff written to floppy from a PC or Mac.

PhilC wrote: 31 Aug 2021 11:33 @rubber_jonnie do you have a floppy drive for your Apple as Well? Mine will come with a couple but no media, so just wondering on the easiest way to get stuff written to floppy from a PC or Mac.

I don't at present, but I have ordered a Floppyemu from Big Mess O Wires in the US and it is in transit. I have a floppy controller but don't currently know if it works until the Floppyemu arrives.

That way I can use SD cards to put images on and just boot like they are a normal disk or hard disk. I'd have thought maybe Greaseweasel might be the best option if you want to write to real floppies.

And woo hoo my Floppyemu is in country :)

@rubber_jonnie thanks, will look into getting the BMOW one once I've got a bit more cash.

PhilC wrote: 31 Aug 2021 12:09 @rubber_jonnie thanks, will look into getting the BMOW one once I've got a bit more cash.

I did ask if they had UK suppliers, sadly not as the shipping was nearly $20 on top of the unit price.

Hopefully by the time you're buying it, I'll have reviewed mine 😁

rubber_jonnie wrote: 31 Aug 2021 12:06 And woo hoo my Floppyemu is in country :)


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Yay!

rubber_jonnie wrote: 31 Aug 2021 12:31
I did ask if they had UK suppliers, sadly not as the shipping was nearly $20 on top of the unit price.

Hopefully by the time you're buying it, I'll have reviewed mine 😁

That was the plan :D

PhilC wrote: 31 Aug 2021 12:58

rubber_jonnie wrote: 31 Aug 2021 12:31
I did ask if they had UK suppliers, sadly not as the shipping was nearly $20 on top of the unit price.

Hopefully by the time you're buying it, I'll have reviewed mine 😁

That was the plan :D

Fingers crossed my home brew FDD controller that came with it works just fine then :)

PhilC wrote: 31 Aug 2021 11:33 @rubber_jonnie do you have a floppy drive for your Apple as Well? Mine will come with a couple but no media, so just wondering on the easiest way to get stuff written to floppy from a PC or Mac.

I use an iPad and Apple II disk server (https://asciiexpress.net/diskserver/) to write floppies via the cassette port, it works well. I had less success with a PC but that will vary with hardware etc.

lilwashu wrote: 31 Aug 2021 13:47

PhilC wrote: 31 Aug 2021 11:33 @rubber_jonnie do you have a floppy drive for your Apple as Well? Mine will come with a couple but no media, so just wondering on the easiest way to get stuff written to floppy from a PC or Mac.

I use an iPad and Apple II disk server (https://asciiexpress.net/diskserver/) to write floppies via the cassette port, it works well. I had less success with a PC but that will vary with hardware etc.

I did consider trying the cassette port and a spare tablet, but got enticed by the idea of the Floppyemu and decided to be patient. At least my AUX RAM card arrived before it, so I have been able to play with some other stuff, plus of course rebuilding my workshop.