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Original Macintosh Keyboard and Mouse on an iPhone.
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It's a lot of fun to watch, thanks! Got the adapter guy's link to share here?
Thanks, duckduckgo found it for me, but good to have the link handy. Heard back from TC yet? [
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I wonder if Floppy Emu Model D might provide USB passthru toimplement that functionality?
Not yet! LOL! But I sent him the actual video just now.Thanks, duckduckgo found it for me, but good to have the link handy. Heard back from TC yet? [
Yep, model C has a standard IDC-20M cable connection on board and its basic function is R/W across the FDD's IDC ribbon cable if I understand it correctly?
R/W over USB to the Micro-SD card would be a nice feature allowing the unit to be embedded in any CPU or FDD case and might allow the display to appear on the USB Host, maybe even your iPHone. If any of that should come to pass, implementing R/W to real live 400K floppy from any iDevice should be possible? No more bridge machine or programming of the emu need be done by physical access to the emu. All you iPhone junkies might find that very convenient.
@bigmessowires Dunno, whatchathink Steve?
edit: LOVE Noisy Disk! Hadn't seen that before now, how about HDD sound enhancement for my IDE/CF adapters a/o SCSI2SD? []
R/W over USB to the Micro-SD card would be a nice feature allowing the unit to be embedded in any CPU or FDD case and might allow the display to appear on the USB Host, maybe even your iPHone. If any of that should come to pass, implementing R/W to real live 400K floppy from any iDevice should be possible? No more bridge machine or programming of the emu need be done by physical access to the emu. All you iPhone junkies might find that very convenient.
@bigmessowires Dunno, whatchathink Steve?
edit: LOVE Noisy Disk! Hadn't seen that before now, how about HDD sound enhancement for my IDE/CF adapters a/o SCSI2SD? [
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Oh well. I guess it would require development of translation software like we used back in the day for mounting volumes Mac<->PC ofor either platform. [}]
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If the goal were to make it compatible with a modern Mac or PC, rather than an iPhone, it might be practical and feasible, if @bigmessowires thinks he can do it somewhat easily.Oh well. I guess it would require development of translation software like we used back in the day for mounting volumes Mac<->PC ofor either platform. [}
Probably, but making it for an iPhone would likely be close to impossible because iOS is so closed down that it's virtually impossible to write software for it that reaches that deep into the system, possibly unless you jailbreak it (and even that has also become increasingly difficult in recent years due to Apple's clamping down hard on the practice). Unless I'm missing something, and this newfangled USB Mass Storage support has facilities for one to write a third party filesystem driver?Oh well. I guess it would require development of translation software like we used back in the day for mounting volumes Mac<->PC ofor either platform. [}
But at least one can somewhat easily write an HFS driver for that. In fact, such a thing (FuseHFS) has existed in some form since Snow Leopard was released. And if I'm not mistaken, it's open source, so one could theoretically update it to support newer versions of OS X/macOS (as I recall, it worked okay on Snow Leopard, was rather buggy beginning with Lion or Mountain Lion, and flat out stopped working beginning with either Mavericks or Yosemite, primarily because nobody bothered to update it).
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I have no idea where you picked up the idea that the Floppy Emu could *control* a Mac floppy drive in addition to emulating one. It doesn't. Period. The CPU in it could probably do it but the CPLD and probably the circuit board would require changes. Floppy busses are not SCSI, it's not a bidirectional-on-the-same-lines peer-to-peer arrangement.
Never thought for a second the Model C could do any of what I was suggesting. Now that I think about it, the Mac probably can't even write to it. Is is read only?
I was talking about a mythical Model D with such capability implemented. The circuit board would need to have USB port added at a bare minimum. I think that might be a good idea for embedded applications like installing it in an external floppy case or hiding it within a clear SE/30' FDD and controlling/uploading to it over USB from the likes of an iPhone.
Floppy emu is fabulous for its design purpose as is, an elegant solution to a real problem. My suggestions here would be featuritis at best, just plain silly dreaming at worst.
I was talking about a mythical Model D with such capability implemented. The circuit board would need to have USB port added at a bare minimum. I think that might be a good idea for embedded applications like installing it in an external floppy case or hiding it within a clear SE/30' FDD and controlling/uploading to it over USB from the likes of an iPhone.
Floppy emu is fabulous for its design purpose as is, an elegant solution to a real problem. My suggestions here would be featuritis at best, just plain silly dreaming at worst.
Good to know, thanks.
An internal HD20 emulator is a fabulous idea for 128K/512K. It might be done with Raspberry Pi Zero and shield? RFI coating might require the wireless connection to be made via the floppy slot? It would have to emulate the startup floppy. Dunno, more crazy stuff, but it'd be nice to deep six the USB cable.
The floppy EMU already emulates a HD20! The guy that made it basically crack the lost code on how the HD20 works.
ISTR that being the case. I was breaking the problem free of emu and out to a Raspberry Pi based solution with no external boxes. It could make wireless data transfers to any Mac with even a single internal FDD connection possible. Ethernet boards are scarce and use up the single PDS of the SE, LC series, CC etc. It would be nice to be able to transfer large files to an LC/Apple II card over wireless, especially so as they're not compatible with the emu..
Not the same as full networking, but more convenient than AppleTalk. Heck, it'd be fun to have one in my floppy port deprived IIfx! Check out Ports and Pinouts, there's a long list of Macs that can't use floppy emu for lack of external FDD port. Think of it as a high capacity Zip drive or other external media transfer peripheral with no wires that doesn't even tie up a SCSI ID? Floppy emu already does all that for Macs with an external floppy port, but the wireless thing connecting to an SD card deprived modern device would be neat. Read only isn't a problem, it'd be like having an internal CD in a Quadra 605 with no media involved..
edit: sorry about the tangential musings, it started off fairly on topic way up yonder. :-/
Not the same as full networking, but more convenient than AppleTalk. Heck, it'd be fun to have one in my floppy port deprived IIfx! Check out Ports and Pinouts, there's a long list of Macs that can't use floppy emu for lack of external FDD port. Think of it as a high capacity Zip drive or other external media transfer peripheral with no wires that doesn't even tie up a SCSI ID? Floppy emu already does all that for Macs with an external floppy port, but the wireless thing connecting to an SD card deprived modern device would be neat. Read only isn't a problem, it'd be like having an internal CD in a Quadra 605 with no media involved..
edit: sorry about the tangential musings, it started off fairly on topic way up yonder. :-/
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