Normal Floppies? I don't currently have a 3.5" disk drive, but what is it limited to using the standard floppy port on the GS. Is there two 3.5" disk drives like on the Mac where there is one model that is super (1.4MB) and the other is a regular (400k/800k), or is all the drives super and it just depends on the controller you use with it?
I currently have two cards in my GS. One is the 4MB memory card from Briel Computers (from the people who make the Repica I the Apple I replica), and my other card is the MicroDrive IDE Controller with a 256MB flash card connected to it. I've been thinking of getting a bigger CF card.
Cards that I want to get or make in the future are A2RetroSystems Uthernet card, and a Stereo or Quadrophonic sound card. I'm unsure what I want for the other four cards. Probably the Apple 3.5 drive controller, a SCSI card so I can use the Apple CD-ROM drive, and a VGA card (if I don't make an external RGB to VGA (scan converter)). Other then that I don't know what other cards I might want.
Right now, it can only read/write 400/800K floppies. with the Superdrive card it will read/write 400/800/1.44 ONLY because the drive I have supports 1.44mb floppies. It was a external mac drive I think.
Apple released so many drives that looked the same but with little changes it's hard to tell. I know more about the Apple II's 5.25" drives then I do about their 3.5" drives.
AFAIK, the IIgs 800k microfloppy (90mm aka 3.5") drives are the same as the Mac (other than adding an eject button).
The 5¼", OTOH, used at least two incompatible interfaces with the same type of connector (obviously not even counting the Disk II). (e.g. A UniDisk or DuoDisk unit is not compatible with the so called SmartPort).
FWIW, the 1440 kiB disks, with a capacity of 1474560 bytes, are either 1.4 binary derived megabytes, or 1.47 decimal derived megabytes. The 1.44 thing is a mangled hybrid measurement that originated in the IBMoid PC world, involving both methods. (And i'm just geeky enough for it to be a peeve.)
Most Apple users (at least used to) normally call them 1.4 MB (or MiB, to use the explicit term for the 1024² multiplier).
Nifty. The music kinda gets in the way so I had to turn it off (even though it's Apple II promo music)
stonedgeek 2 years ago
Nice gs. What cards do you have for it?
TheKisho 3 years ago
No cards yet. I want a supedrive card though so I can use normal floppies.
marshalauth 3 years ago
Normal Floppies? I don't currently have a 3.5" disk drive, but what is it limited to using the standard floppy port on the GS. Is there two 3.5" disk drives like on the Mac where there is one model that is super (1.4MB) and the other is a regular (400k/800k), or is all the drives super and it just depends on the controller you use with it?
TheKisho 3 years ago
I currently have two cards in my GS. One is the 4MB memory card from Briel Computers (from the people who make the Repica I the Apple I replica), and my other card is the MicroDrive IDE Controller with a 256MB flash card connected to it. I've been thinking of getting a bigger CF card.
TheKisho 3 years ago
Cards that I want to get or make in the future are A2RetroSystems Uthernet card, and a Stereo or Quadrophonic sound card. I'm unsure what I want for the other four cards. Probably the Apple 3.5 drive controller, a SCSI card so I can use the Apple CD-ROM drive, and a VGA card (if I don't make an external RGB to VGA (scan converter)). Other then that I don't know what other cards I might want.
TheKisho 3 years ago
Right now, it can only read/write 400/800K floppies. with the Superdrive card it will read/write 400/800/1.44 ONLY because the drive I have supports 1.44mb floppies. It was a external mac drive I think.
marshalauth 3 years ago
Probably not a Mac drive.
Apple released so many drives that looked the same but with little changes it's hard to tell. I know more about the Apple II's 5.25" drives then I do about their 3.5" drives.
TheKisho 3 years ago
AFAIK, the IIgs 800k microfloppy (90mm aka 3.5") drives are the same as the Mac (other than adding an eject button).
The 5¼", OTOH, used at least two incompatible interfaces with the same type of connector (obviously not even counting the Disk II). (e.g. A UniDisk or DuoDisk unit is not compatible with the so called SmartPort).
ueberRegenbogen 2 years ago
FWIW, the 1440 kiB disks, with a capacity of 1474560 bytes, are either 1.4 binary derived megabytes, or 1.47 decimal derived megabytes. The 1.44 thing is a mangled hybrid measurement that originated in the IBMoid PC world, involving both methods. (And i'm just geeky enough for it to be a peeve.)
Most Apple users (at least used to) normally call them 1.4 MB (or MiB, to use the explicit term for the 1024² multiplier).
ueberRegenbogen 2 years ago
Unfortunately Apple didn't make many of the SuperDrive capable cards. :\
ueberRegenbogen 2 years ago
Aweosme. I have on too I just can't find it. I can't wait to see some videos. I want to learn how to use it so I can do a live demo on uStream.
VDOria92 3 years ago
I want the Uthernet card, the MicroDrive, and a a sound card (a better one)
marshalauth 3 years ago