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FPGA-Based Disk Controller for the Apple II (2017)

by jdblair on 6/17/24, 1:40 PM with 14 comments

• by js2 on 6/17/24, 11:27 PM

  (2017). Perhaps this is a better link since the controller is in fact available commercially since that post:

  https://www.bigmessowires.com/yellowstone/

  Here's a link to all the blog posts discussing its development:

  https://www.bigmessowires.com/category/yellowstone/?order=as...

• by snvzz on 6/17/24, 11:30 PM

  Note this is Open Source Hardware proper[0].

  0. https://www.bigmessowires.com/2019/01/28/yellowstone-goes-op...

• by EvanAnderson on 6/18/24, 12:18 AM

  Highly recommend BMoW projects / products.

  I've got a Yellowstone and a Floppy Emu. They are great. The Floppy Emu is particularly noteworthy because of the functionality Steve has added since its release (WOZ image support, for example).

• by criddell on 6/18/24, 6:04 PM

  I’d love to have a reason to pick up an 80’s microcomputer. I had a TI-99/4A but could never afford the peripheral expansion box. I could now though, but what would I do with it?

  I had the TI but what I really wanted was an Atari 800 or Apple II. I really wish I could think of something to do with one of these. I’ve thought about getting one and writing some journaling software for it to give me a reason to sit down at the console every day or two, but then I remember how awful those old keyboards were and generally how unpleasant these machines were.

  Probably best to leave my nostalgia intact and stick to modern computers.

• by wiz21c on 6/18/24, 10:12 AM

  Does the existence of this project imply that it's harder to find a drive controller than it is to find actual drives ?