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I don't know, but I would think not, considering it requires a dry cleaning disk versus the traditional cleaning disk with a wet solution. Maybe gently with just a q-tip, but no IPA?

Nice work, and thanks for the writeup. Will be useful to others. That monitor is way more complicated than I expected. It's a whole computer in there.

The problem is that the Imation Dry Cleaning Disk you need to clean the head is pretty rare and hard to find. Unfortunately you can't use a regular floppy cleaning disk, it'll damage the drive. You could try contact this seller and see if they'll part with just the cleaning disk...

With how fast it was, I wonder if it could have just done multiple passes to simulate variable speed.

That rung a bell in my head when you asked that. I looked back in the AppleSauce Discord because I had this feeling that I actually asked that question once, and apparently I did some time ago. Disk Blitz said he's actually looking into adding USB support to the AppleSauce and supporting the...

@adespoton I'll give that a try, thanks. I wonder if that has anything to do with the plastic bag trick with credit cards? If you have a card that's having trouble reading, run it through the mag reader with a plastic bag over it. For some reason the static from the bag makes the card easier...

Do you have a Commodore calculator and Commodore typewriter to complete the setup? :)

Assuming you had an HDI-20 to DB-19 adapter cable (don't know if anyone ever made one), would the PowerBook floppy drive work off a desktop Macintosh's floppy port? (i.e. IIci, SE, etc.)

@LaPorta Not through an AppleSauce. I use it connected to a regular Macintosh, then I use a hex editor or ResEdit to copy bit-by-bit in troublesome areas. After I'm able to extract the files, I reconstruct it on a known good disk.

@crazyben There are older/used versions you can find for cheaper if you ask on the AppleSauce discord. That just happens to be the latest version. Unless you're working obscure Osborn computers with 8" floppy drives, you probably don't need the AppleSauce +. I have the previous model, but...

On another note, I was able to recover Disk 1. :D AppleSauce to the rescue! Just kept spamming the Read Again button for the pad sectors, and it eventually got a good read. After that I was able to get a good flux. So I'll have version 3.0.2 retail and B&W up on my website soon.

I guess not too many people sent out for it. :o @LaPorta I have a second copy that's broken if you just want to transfer the label to a new disk. I verified both disks just contained a copy of a disk image that contained the actual files.

Got my disks! They're in rough shape. I was able to recover Disk 2 of Color Dark Castle. Working on Disk 1. I was able to get a flux read, but with errors ... working on recovering it. No one has imaged this version before, apparently. There are disk images of an older release on Macintosh...

Ooo. Maybe use a camera lens filter with a film adapter on flatbed? Could make for some interesting pictures.

I took apart a broken projector cuz I was curious about the LCD. Turns out it's a teeny tiny grayscale LCD. It uses a prism to split the light to 3 mirrors that then run it through 3 color filters, then a final prism that recombines it all. Also, I think there's a way to use a spinning color...

I was just thinking. If you had an original Apple OneScanner and some 8x11 color filters, could you still make color scans by doing one pass for each color? Then recombine them in Photoshop? Would that work? Friday morning thoughts. Everyone is at home, so I'm alone at work. :P

Has anyone tried a piece of vinyl wrap? Maybe it's the same adhesive. It'd be an economical way to wrap a Mac for a week (or however long it takes to work) then peel it off.

I have an AppleSauce for making flux images, so hopefully I can get a good read. Since they're High Density disks, I can also try using my Imation Superdisk drive. Because of its precision, it's able to read partial sectors of regular floppy disks. I've been able to recover a few disks by...

I have a IIfx and a Centris 610. I'd also have a IIci if I could ever get a working motherboard. I also have a 2MB ROM and original programmer. I might have an 8MB ROM, but I don't remember.

Yes! Snagged Color Dark Castle off eBay. Maybe I paid too much, but I've been looking for this one for a long time. I have the manual for the game, but no disks. Which is fine cuz almost all of Delta Tao's games shipped with just the manual and disks shrinkwrapped. I'm curious about the 2...