Macintosh / Apple blog

various | March 20, 2005, first day of Spring | 'Civ

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This is a 'blog for Mac and Apple stuff. IOW, not a 'blog for how wonderful and innovative Dull and Windulls is.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/may/03/apple-iphone-technology-market

...[snip] Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple with Jobs in the mid-1970s, reckons the Apple II remains their most important innovation: “That started the company and brought it the great wealth to develop so many things from then on. It also began a revolution of computers at home, at school, etc. The Macintosh has been around for over 20 years. Sure, it’s more the name that stuck than any technology, but wait 20 years before comparing the importance of the iPhone in terms of historical importance to the Macintosh platform.” [end]

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http://dreher.net/?s=projects/CFforAppleII&c=projects/CFforAppleII/main.php

Run 6 Status: Feb 23, 2009

Run 6 of CFFA cards is sold out. I have no plans to produce any more CFFA’s of this design. In a few weeks I will take a look at some of the units that never worked and see if I can repair them. If I can fix them I will throw them up on Ebay.

Future CFFA Projects:

I am currently looking at designing a new CFFA type card with some important new features. I think the most useful feature would be dual Floppy disk drive emulation. This would allow a new CFFA card to handle both ProDOS and any other OS that can run from the floppy drives, like DOS 3.3. This would also include protected games as long as a nibblized image could be made.

I am looking to gauge interest in such a product. If you think you would be interested in purchasing an advanced CFFA type card with floppy emulation and a couple of other goodies, please let me know. Click here to send me an E-mail [see his page for link]. As for how long something like this would take before it was available I would have to estimate about 10 to 12 months.

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Luddite’s Amazing Apple IIe Web Server
http://www.ld8.org:6502/

4 Meg RAM Apple IIGS memory cards now available again at a new low price of $49!
http://www.brielcomputers.com/wik/index.php?title=4MegGSRAM

AppleLogic
http://www.applelogic.org/index.html
Pseudo Disk ][ Controller Card
http://www.applelogic.org/AF%20PseudoDISK%20%5D%5B.html
http://www.applelogic.org/AL/PSEUDODISKAF.jpg

IIgs MicroDrive IDE Controller - 128MB CF
http://www.reactivemicro.com/product_info.php?products_id=32

16 Sector - YAA2HWS
http://16sector.com/
Focus IDE HD Controller + CF
http://16sector.com/shop/a2Storage/focus-ide-hd-controller—cf/

[snip] The Original Apple II Hard Card is back and in tow comes some Sirius RAM for your IIgs! ...Sirius RAM IIgs! A universally compatible 8 Meg card for your Apple IIgs ROM 01 or 3. Available both with and without RAM... Just plug it in and go. No SCSI DMA worries, the system handles everything... (Re)Introducing Focus Drive... Just remove it from the computer, place it in a small static bag and carry it with you to a meeting or friends computer to exchange data... IDE Means more value & less hassle than SCSI. $99.00 gets you started. 16 Bit means speed. Our Focus Controller card uses 16 bit Enhanced IDE technology for even faster throughput when combined with your IIgs and the GS/OS Native Driver. The Focus Drive is 100% ProDOS compatible and performs very well with all popular applications and other peripheral cards. Conflicts with SCSI cards and accelerators are non-existent. [end]

RetroFloppy
http://www.retrofloppy.com/

IIgs Laptop
http://www.8bitsystem.com/?page_id=56

last but not least, *this* page is a *lot* of fun:

Apple][VGA - Development news
http://ferdimh.homelinux.net/a2/a2vga/devel/

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thought I'd posted this arch-hacking link before, but it would have been the old one, the member homepages on AOL, which have all been nuked (by AOL):

AppleCrate II: A New Apple II-Based Parallel Computer

That's what I'm talkin' about. ;')

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I got this the other day, 50 or 75 per cent off (one of the local Office Depot locations, closing clearance sale), and tried it on the mid-90s PowerMac 7600, mouse only. The mouse is what I've been using, a $10 Micro Innovations laser mouse, two buttons and wheel, but on a PS/2 to ADB adapter. Anyway, plugged the mouse into this Belkin USB to PS/2 Adapter, plugged that into the end of the USB keyboard, and it worked immediately, no drivers or anything (there aren't any available). The only inconvenience is that the right button doesn't bring up the contextual menu, I have to shift-click, or (the original Mac method) click and wait. Haven't tried the keyboard side yet, may do that today. When I get ambitious (ie, don't hold your breath) I plan to shut down, pull off the lid, and install this 3+1 Port FireWire PCI Card that I picked up for cheap on the clearance when Circuit City closed.

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Shaky Early Days of Apple Revealed
NBC Bay Area | Tue, Jun 2, 2009 | JACKSON WEST
Posted on 06/02/2009 2:22:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2263234/posts

Dawn of the Personal Computer: From Altair to the IBM PC
Maximum PC | 03 June 2009 | Erik Klein
Posted on 06/03/2009 6:34:36 AM PDT by ShadowAce
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2263708/posts

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The site page sez it works under "OS 10.5 running Parallels 3.5 with Windows XP" and suggests it should work under other configurations. It was rolled out at least six years ago (!) apparently by Pixela, and the price hasn't budged from the $119 they were charging in 2003.

USB to FireWire Adapter -- US Version (NTSC)

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another option?

Pinnacle/Avid Liquid Pro 7
http://www.firewire-1394.com/pinnacle-liquid-edition-pro.htm

Is there an adapter that goes from USB to Firewire DV?
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
http://jackwhispers.blogspot.com/2009/06/is-there-adapter-that-goes-from-usb-to.html
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gAUjMVwO4_I/SjesGBB1XYI/AAAAAAAACVQ/3YKh-jd4ZTc/s1600-h/PinnacleUSBtoFirewireadapter.jpg

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No Prisoners!!!

• 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Forums

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I know, not your cup, but I was looking for a quickie browser d/l (having been forced into 10.2 on dialup) and this appears to be new (it's news to me):

• Classilla is a free, open source browser for Mac OS 9

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Status: Jan 1, 2010: HD and Floppy images running from USB flash drives

The CFFA3000 can now boot, read, and write from HD and floppy image files stored on common USB flash drives. The flash drive can be formatted FAT16 or FAT32. Currently .PO and .NIB files are supported. There is still a great deal of supporting code to be written and tested and some flash drives don't work so they will need to be debugged. Also a second prototype will be needed to correct a few bugs and add a couple small features.

Pictured below is the first prototype CFFA3000 PCB:

-Rich

I am looking to gauge interest in this product. If you think you would be interested in purchasing an advanced CFFA type card with floppy emulation and a couple of other goodies, please let me know. Send me an E-mail. I am hoping to have something ready to release by the middle of 2010.

Looking for the CFFA1 for Apple1 Project? Click Here!

Great tool for CFFA users:
All CFFA owners who use Windows... Andy McFadden has come out with an excellent tool called: CiderPress. This tool will allow you to read and write your CFFA formatted CF cards right on your PC. It will make an excellent backup tool. Check it out at Andy's Site

Information about the "3 jumper" fix for older CFFA V1.2 cards: (Runs 1, 2, and 3) A problem as been found that explains why many CompactFlash cards have never worked with the older CFFA cards. I was motivated to find this problem when I realized that SanDisk 256MB cards were not working properly. To summarize, the address lines were changing near the end of the ATA bus cycle seen by the CF card. This seemed to be tolerated by the smaller SanDisk cards, but not the 256MB card or many other brands, like Lexar. So after much debugging I found the problem and was able to fix the problem with a new release of the CPLD logic (V1.4), and the addition of 3 "rework" jumper wires to the board. Click here to see the front of the board, and here to the back.

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IIgs MicroDrive IDE Controller -- 128MB CF -- "The MicroDrive IDE Controller is a device that once installed in the Apple IIgs or Enhanced IIe acts like a solid-state Hard Drive using Compact Flash Cards.  Comes with preloaded 128 MB Compact Flash Card and USB Compact Flash Card Reader (not pictured) for your PC.  Everything you need to start using the MicroDrive right out of the box!"

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Apple][VGA - Development news (November 2009 update)

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NadaNet update November 18, 2009