Floppy Emu
By Jeremiah Stoddard on January 23, 2023

I ordered a Floppy Emu and a Yellowstone Card (the Yellowstone card is a
disk controller that handles just about everything: 5.25" floppy drives,
3.5" floppy drives, hard drives, even Macintosh floppy drives) a couple of
days ago, and they arrived today. I'm already wondering how I lived so
long without these... or at least a FloppyEmu with a Liron card, or
something.

I don't have a problem with floppy disks. I'm used to them, and I enjoy
the sound the drives make on the Apple IIe. The ability to use a virtual
hard drive is a game changer, though. It's going to be fantastic not to
worry about disk space when developing software with the ORCA/M assembler.
Same with Appleworks, together with the three megabytes of RAM it
supports--I'll be able to write more and longer documents. Playing Nox
Archaist on real hardware without all the disk swapping is already nice.

The silence is deafening, though.

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