Hi,
I'm new here :) I just revived my first Apple II+ ( a clone) after a lot of diagnostics and tinkering. But now it works! I can boot to AppleSoft and load and save tapes, but I would really like to expand it's capabilities - especially in the line of adding floppydisk support. I see a lot of options to emulate disks once you have a disk interface card, but I don't have one and since I live in Europe listing from Ebay and similar sites quickly become quite expensive. The controller itself doesn't look to contain any hard to come by components, so I was wondering if anyone here has or know of gerber files so I can build a replica ?
If you live in Europe, you can get a Disk ][ Controller clone much cheaper than it would cost you to build one yourself: https://www.ebay.com/itm/316076575076
The seller is a member here, I have bought stuff from him in the past and I know for sure that he tests his hardware.
https://github.com/btb/DiskII
Thank you Macintosh_nik :)
Excellent! That was exactly what I was looking for - I've ordered one from ebay now, but I'm still quite tempted to build one myself. I'll have a closer look at it
I’ve been hesitant to build one myself due to the costs and complexity. This clone seems like a much better option
https://www.ebay.com/tunnel rush/itm/316076575076
That's a cool project. I've seen it before but since I have several Disk II cards, both genuine and clone, I never gave it a thought, but now that I'm looking at it again, I think I'll build that project.
For a few bucks more in BOM cost, Brad's SmartDisk II project will also add SmartPort capabilities so you can use something like a SmartPortSD or Fujinet in addition to regular Disk II drives (although not at the same time).
https://github.com/btb/SmartDiskII
I've built one myself and works great in my IIe.