AEChadwick
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i spent a couple days building parts to mount a floppyEMU inside my IIc. (I’m on furlough waiting out the strike(s) in hollywood and need to keep busy.)
This is 100% a non-destructive edit; i pulled the original drive and set it to the side for posterity; the new pieces use only the existing space and opening, exactly no changes were made to the IIc at all.
The structure is a series of pieces: a frame to hold the floppyEMU and a Noisy Disk, a side piece to catch the keyboard tabs (as per the original drive cage), and a new face. The new face holds displaced parts from the FloppyEMU: an extension cable allows the SD card to be easily removed from its own floppy-drive-style slot, bodge wires transfer the button functions.
The entire screen was moved to become a flip-unit--down for travel and up for use, with a little arm that clicks into place. I used wrap wire to extend the screen. I practiced that rewiring on a couple identical cheap screens from AliExpress, Steve himself told me where to look (the final product made him laugh). The screen is incomplete because my original raster/bezel printed janky, i need to redesign it. (I spent way too long over-engineering that screen... at one point it popped out on a little pantograph assembly, god forgive me. In the end, i went really simple. Low Tech is the Best Tech.)
It works great and is super satisfying. (At current, this precludes use of the FloppyEMU’s SmartPort function; maybe i will work up a cable and a switch for version 2.)
*custom IIc-style GamePad based on Blondihack’s work.
This is 100% a non-destructive edit; i pulled the original drive and set it to the side for posterity; the new pieces use only the existing space and opening, exactly no changes were made to the IIc at all.
The structure is a series of pieces: a frame to hold the floppyEMU and a Noisy Disk, a side piece to catch the keyboard tabs (as per the original drive cage), and a new face. The new face holds displaced parts from the FloppyEMU: an extension cable allows the SD card to be easily removed from its own floppy-drive-style slot, bodge wires transfer the button functions.
The entire screen was moved to become a flip-unit--down for travel and up for use, with a little arm that clicks into place. I used wrap wire to extend the screen. I practiced that rewiring on a couple identical cheap screens from AliExpress, Steve himself told me where to look (the final product made him laugh). The screen is incomplete because my original raster/bezel printed janky, i need to redesign it. (I spent way too long over-engineering that screen... at one point it popped out on a little pantograph assembly, god forgive me. In the end, i went really simple. Low Tech is the Best Tech.)
It works great and is super satisfying. (At current, this precludes use of the FloppyEMU’s SmartPort function; maybe i will work up a cable and a switch for version 2.)
*custom IIc-style GamePad based on Blondihack’s work.
