Category: Floppy Drive

This is a huge new release mainly focused at support for the revision 2 Applesauce hardware, but with lots of new stuff for owners of current hardware. The new hardware adds support for working with drives using the standard 34-pin interface (most PC drives). The A2R format used by Applesauce has also been updated to version 3.0 in this release. Lots of new features in the updated format like support for hard sectored disks. But please note that the new…

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 duplicate Apple II, II+, IIe, IIc, IIgs, and Apple III floppies as well as Mac 400/800K floppies. For more information or to purchase a unit,…

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 select the best drive for performing disk imaging. These new diagnostic tools should also allow users to evaluate whether the drives need maintenance or if…

kboohk, the producer of the wDrive Floppy Disk Emulator, has announced the immediate availability of the wDrive.   The wDrive comes in two flavors.  White and Transparent.   The units are currently selling for $69 USD on the kboohk website and apparently is shipping immediately. Features of the wDrive are: * Supports 5.25 disk image in nib, edf and woz format. * Supports disk read/write(for game save,disk copy). * Transfer floppy disk to .WOZ through disk copy. * Support Fat/Fat32 file system….