John Keoni Morris has made a second run of his Applesauce Floppy Disk Controller available. The run is 20 units of the deluxe model and 5 units of the basic model. The Applesauce FDC allows users to make digital duplications of their floppy disks and store and use them on modern platforms. Applesauce FDC will […]
When it comes to Apple II, I’m easy to please. Every time I see a new product or something that gives new use, combines new technology and makes my retro computing more fun, I’m very happy with it. Now add some lights to the equation and let me control it within the computer – I’m […]
John Keoni Morris, author and creator of Applesauce Floppy Disk Controller, has announced the immediate availability of the latest version of the client software for the Applesauce FDC. Version 1.1.4 includes a host of fixes and incremental improvements. According to the announcement in the Applesauce group, Version 1.1.4 includes: • Fixed a couple crashes and […]
Atsushi Ushiroda, a long time member of the FApple2 group in Japan is now selling a batch of the MC68008 co-processor cards for the Apple II. The cards are available directly from Ushiroda at a price of $100 USD which includes international shipping. The 68008 while not extensively made or sold in the 1980’s does […]
Big Mess O’ Wires (BMOW) announced this morning that they were releasing the Yellowstone controller card to the public. The release makes the cards a Creative Commons license open source project. Yellowstone is a Liron compatible disk controller for the Apple II. The original Liron cards were created in 1985 but this card uses FPGA […]
The Apple II Slice project has been completed. The Apple II Slice, basically is an Apple IIe emulator running on a raspberry Pi inside of a majorly shortened Apple II case. This project was undertaken by its creator, well known Apple fan and co-host of the RetroMacCast, John Leake, in order to utilize a broken […]
For those of you with the FloppyEmu Floppy Disk Emulator, you can now run .WOZ files from the Applesauce FDC on your FloppyEmu. Steve Chamberlain, creator of FloppyEmu and John K. Morris, the creator of the Applesauce FDC have been working together to provide the support and insure users will continue to be able to […]
John Morris just announced that the new Applesauce 1.1 software will have a further enhanced disk drive analysis allowing users to not only see the rotation speed but also factors such as: Power Levels Reading Writing Head Tracking Sync Sensor status The Write Protect switch As John says, it will make it much easier to […]
John Keoni Morris, the creator of the Applesauce Floppy Disk Controller has announced the release of the WOZ disk image specification. The update, version 2.0 of the specification, includes a host of updates and fixes including: Better 3.5 inch floppy disk support Emulator hints Fixes an issue with extremely long tracks Also announced was the […]
In his latest video, Chris Torrence does a video review of the wDrive, a new floppy disk emulator from KbooHK. The wDrive supports copy protected formats such as WOZ, EDD/EDF, and NIB, as well as DSK, DO, and PO disk images. Check it out! Please follow and like us:
