MAC SIT EMULATOR PC
The Kryoflux USB floppy thing, from the best of my limited search, is able to read and image these discs to PC but I can find no reference to doing the opposite: WRITE the disc images to actual floppy, which is the thing we want to do to play with our Mac emulators. This helped to stuff more bits on the disc in 1985, but it really sucks in the modern world. They use constant linear velocity - rather than constant angular velocity like every other drive in the world - so the drive motor is variable speed. Sounds a bit expensive, but I guess you can't expect someone (who has other things to do) to do this kind of thing, for FREE.Īfter extensive (sort-of) Googling, I have come to the conclusion that the 800K (and 400K) Mac disks are a REAL PROBLEM in the modern world. apologies! Edited Novemby wood_jlįor $10, he'll send you a system disc, and $10/ea for a couple other discs.
MAC SIT EMULATOR HOW TO
Or, I could be confusing this with the 400K older disks.ĭoes anybody know how to write 800K (or 400K) Mac floppy images to real disks?Įdit: it sort of looks like I copied Guitarman's "avatar" (or whatever the little image is called) when I post right after him. I think I read that the PC drive won't do it, then I thought I read a conflicting story. I think a real problem is trying to write Mac 800K floppy images, downloaded to the internet.
MAC SIT EMULATOR MANUAL
I wish I could speak from experience, but the manual seems to allude to it working with the internal drive. I have a Spectre GCR I bought from Ebay a year or 2 ago and never tried it, because I never seem to have the time. It came with an ST floppy cable, that you'd plug from the cartridge to the external (drive B) port on the back of the 1040/MegaST (etc) and it could control the internal drive through that. The Spectre manual says it works with the internal drive. I believe you're mistaken on this point, Guitarman. The other was Magic Sac and was made by the same person. The Spectre 128 and the newer Spectre GCR. If the ST has an internal drive, it remains used by the Atari while the external connected to the Spectre would read/write MAC disks. This is correct, but the Atari drive had to be an external one as it connected to the back of the Spectre cartridge. (Again, don't jump down my throat if I'm wrong, it's been a while since I owned the spectre)
Macs used to use CLV (constant linear velocity) type drives (drive speed changed depending on what track you were reading), whereas everyone else used CAV (Constant angular velocity) (drive speed stayed the same), but that's Jobs for ya, always had to do something different. There's another one called Magic Hat, but the Spectre GCR was infinately cooler because (and please correct me if I am wrong, it's been a LONG TIME) you could just put mac formatted disks in your ST drive with the Spectre, but you could not with the magic hat (you had to convert the mac format to something the st could read).
I had one, it was really cool, hardest part was getting a copy of the mac system roms.
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