#floppy emulator

I suggested previously that a Gotek floppy emulator would probably be the easiest way to get this old Sanyo MBC-1000 booted and running again. Turns out that was even easier than I expected.

The first thing I did was reflash the Gotek with FlashFloppy to add support for more image and drive types. FlashFloppy doesn't directly support Teledisk images, but the HxC software can convert them into something both FlashFloppy and HxC can use on a Gotek. I only needed a normal 34-pin ribbon cable for the mainboard interface, and I cobbled together a USB power adapter.

And ... that was it. The computer booted right into CP/M 2.2 without any complaints.

AKAI MPC 2000 USB Floppy Emulator (Installation)

今更かもしれないけど、MPC２０００でフロッピーの人USBに変更できるんだ。

Fail of the Week: Electrically Effective Emulators Exceed Enclosure, Enrage Engineer

27After a few years of on and off development, [Steve] from Big Mess ‘o Wires completed work on a floppy disk drive emulator for older Macs such as the Plus. The emu plugs into the DB-19 port on the Mac and acts just like a 3.5″ floppy, using an SD card to store the images. He’s been selling the floppy emus for about the last year, and assembled the first several scores of them himself. At some point, he enlisted a board house to make them, and as of November 2014, he’s had enclosures available in both clear acrylic and …read more #DB19, #FailOfTheWeek, #Floppy, #FloppyDrive, #FloppyEmulator, #HackadayColumns, #MacPlus