I’ve fixed most of the outstanding bugs in the HD20 emulation firmware. If you’ve been holding out for a way to attach huge SD card storage to your vintage Mac, this new firmware version is actually worth using. It’s still a read-only disk, and the data transfer rate can be improved further, but otherwise it’s totally usable as giant boot disk or a tool for transferring files between your vintage Mac and other machines. There doesn’t appear to be any limit on maximum disk size except the OS limit of 2 GB. If you already have a Floppy Emu board, you can use this with only a firmware update! And if you don’t have one, get one now!
- Fixed handling of the holdoff drive state. Now you can go crazy with the mouse during disk I/O without causing any problems.
- The disk’s Get Info window now says “Floppy Emu” for the disk location.
- Disk icon is a soothing round shape.
HD20 Firmware 0.2A-F65
See my previous post for notes about which Mac models are compatible, and how to apply the firmware update.