Watched this video again. Can’t say enough about quality of AmigaLove videos. Nice job. Studying this closely so I can establish my work flow to move Mac SW over to AMAX setup on my A1k… WILD!
Remember, only Macs with an external floppy port are supported for Floppy Emu. Also, download Apple Disk Copy 6 from the Mac Garden. img, and dsk files are Disk Image archives. Disk Copy will allow you to double click and mount the images on your Basilisk or real desktop. I really enjoy your videos sir.
Thanks for the kinds words, Steven. You *can* use the floppy emu with internal headers, too - that's how I did it and it's fully supported. From BMOW: "It includes a 3 foot 20-pin ribbon cable for connecting to your computer, and a DB-19 adapter that mates with the 19-pin external disk port found on most vintage Apple machines. If necessary, this adapter can be removed and the cable can be connected to an internal disk header on the computer’s logic board or disk controller." That's what I did. I used two DB-19 cables leading to the A/B switch so it can sit outside my case, but I can flip to either the Floppy Emu or the internal SuperDrive. It's awesome - I love it!
@@AmigaLove I honestly did not know that. I have working floppies on my PowerMac G3, LCIII and Classic, so if one of those should fail then I can use a FE in a pinch especially on the G3 as it has no external port. Another great tool is the external SCSI2SD. It connects to any Mac with 25 pin SCSI and is bootable. It’s also a great option when you’re starting out. And you’re absolutely correct; I always wanted a real Amiga but could never afford one back in the day and especially not now. The vintage Mac community is pretty solid, but the vintage Amiga crowd is insane. Yes, I’d love RJ-45, Gigabit Ethernet on an SE/30, or a NuBus SATA solution for a IIci but I don’t know if it’s that important to the vintage Mac folks. Oh well, we can dream. Thanks.
@@StevenSmyth I didn't mention it in the video, but I upgraded my internal HDD to a SCSI2SD board. I have an external, but my internal died a horrific death and I needed to do the swap. That process was brutally hard (for me) but once I got it working - oh my god what an improvement! My Q700 is nearly silent, and really fast all things considered. I love it.
Great video, and I’m a huge Amiga fan as well. I had to laugh when you said the Mac is harder to get software onto though. I think it’s more a matter of what someone is used to. If you just want floppy images, the process is practically identical between the Mac, Amiga, and c64 If you want to run games on a hard drive I think if it weren’t for pre-configured (whdload) images for the Amiga, the Amiga is borderline impossible by comparison. Pre-configured HD images exist for the Mac as well.
Hi. If there a common machine to interface old and new. Currently for Apple equipment i have ibook G4 and macbook core 2 duo and Imac core2duo, all 3 getting old but still used at times. Back in Y2k days, i am trying to remember but i believe i had Mac2 LC - pizza box with a separate beautifully sharp ( sony ?? ) screen - that had a newer mac as a companion a LC450 or Performa 5200 - i cant remember it was to long ago, abut it was a all in one and had either floppy and cdrom or cdrom and zip disk built in ( ok it may have been floppy and cdrom and external zip - but that may have belong to the pizza box - to long ago ) Anyway i was able to connect both up, apple talk - i definately recall moving files between the 2 ( memory is vague as when doom came out on PC i was given some smc combo cards and ran co-axial under the house between 4 room s ( it is still there ) but late upgraded to 10/100 cat 5 - but none of those machines have 10/100 ethernet connectors
Thank you very much foe the awesome content. Just wanted to ask how did you transfer the updated .img file onto the physical floppy? My modern MacBook doesn‘t have a floppy drive. I tried to use an external floppy drive but the disks are blocked and nothing can be dragged and dropped on them. Formatting floppy disks in DOS-format with the old Macintosh make them writeable with the modern MacBook but the .img file doesn‘t fit in the floppy. A „not enough space“ message is displayed. I am kind of stuck and would rather buy the floppy-Emu. Could you please provide some advice? Regards from Germany, Eduardo
Great topic! I have Mac IIci, a 840av and 2 PowerBook 180's. Will be trying all of this when my Floppy Emu arrives. To digress a bit into the controversial, I always found that Amiga users were "real" users while with Mac it was more like a religion. LOLOLOL Unfortunately, I had given away all my Amigas. I kept the Macs because I had paid so much for them compared to my Amigas.
Thanks. It's hard for me to keep all of the capitalization and naming conventions straight these days. At least it doesn't have an "i" or "pro" thrown in there somewhere or I'd really be in trouble! =)
You should not have unstuffed them in modern OS, you lost many of your icons. And you will really run into problems if you had tried to do this on a Windows host machine if they were in a zip. You should only unstuff within the emulator.
A Mac?? A MAC???? Unsubscribe, unfriend, unfollow, un-everything!🤣😉 I own about six Mac's, one 68K and five PPC. I actually never use them for anything, but I suppose I should. It certainly is a pain to get data to them, unless the Mac has a CD- ROM. Well, at least you don't cover Atari ST's... 😉
CD-ROM is a big help for sure. And since it comes as part of the OS with 7.5 and above, you're good to go I'd imagine. But getting the floppy images over with the Floppy Emu is such a great improvement over the tumbleweed wasteland that is new hardware for the old classic machines. Which 68K Mac do you have? And any cool PPC variations? I've always lusted over the Cube but the slot loading CD/DVD is a total nightmare these days (again, with a lack of any real hardware support to speak of for such a widespread problem).
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Just was watching some of your vintage Macintosh videos and tutorials and this has inspired me to start thinking different again with my LC III+ :)
Watched this video again. Can’t say enough about quality of AmigaLove videos. Nice job. Studying this closely so I can establish my work flow to move Mac SW over to AMAX setup on my A1k… WILD!
Remember, only Macs with an external floppy port are supported for Floppy Emu. Also, download Apple Disk Copy 6 from the Mac Garden. img, and dsk files are Disk Image archives. Disk Copy will allow you to double click and mount the images on your Basilisk or real desktop. I really enjoy your videos sir.
Thanks for the kinds words, Steven. You *can* use the floppy emu with internal headers, too - that's how I did it and it's fully supported. From BMOW: "It includes a 3 foot 20-pin ribbon cable for connecting to your computer, and a DB-19 adapter that mates with the 19-pin external disk port found on most vintage Apple machines. If necessary, this adapter can be removed and the cable can be connected to an internal disk header on the computer’s logic board or disk controller." That's what I did. I used two DB-19 cables leading to the A/B switch so it can sit outside my case, but I can flip to either the Floppy Emu or the internal SuperDrive. It's awesome - I love it!
@@AmigaLove I honestly did not know that. I have working floppies on my PowerMac G3, LCIII and Classic, so if one of those should fail then I can use a FE in a pinch especially on the G3 as it has no external port. Another great tool is the external SCSI2SD. It connects to any Mac with 25 pin SCSI and is bootable. It’s also a great option when you’re starting out. And you’re absolutely correct; I always wanted a real Amiga but could never afford one back in the day and especially not now. The vintage Mac community is pretty solid, but the vintage Amiga crowd is insane. Yes, I’d love RJ-45, Gigabit Ethernet on an SE/30, or a NuBus SATA solution for a IIci but I don’t know if it’s that important to the vintage Mac folks. Oh well, we can dream. Thanks.
@@StevenSmyth I didn't mention it in the video, but I upgraded my internal HDD to a SCSI2SD board. I have an external, but my internal died a horrific death and I needed to do the swap. That process was brutally hard (for me) but once I got it working - oh my god what an improvement! My Q700 is nearly silent, and really fast all things considered. I love it.
Very cool device! Thank you for sharing!
You’re welcome - thanks for watching!
I really want to do this on a PPC iMac g3. Maybe this video will help.
Great video, and I’m a huge Amiga fan as well. I had to laugh when you said the Mac is harder to get software onto though.
I think it’s more a matter of what someone is used to.
If you just want floppy images, the process is practically identical between the Mac, Amiga, and c64
If you want to run games on a hard drive I think if it weren’t for pre-configured (whdload) images for the Amiga, the Amiga is borderline impossible by comparison.
Pre-configured HD images exist for the Mac as well.
On Windows the Blank Floppy Disks from Macintosh Repository are in .DSK format not .IMG, how do save them as .IMG?
Hi.
If there a common machine to interface old and new.
Currently for Apple equipment i have ibook G4 and macbook core 2 duo and Imac core2duo, all 3 getting old but still used at times.
Back in Y2k days, i am trying to remember but i believe i had Mac2 LC - pizza box with a separate beautifully sharp ( sony ?? ) screen - that had a newer mac as a companion a LC450 or Performa 5200 - i cant remember it was to long ago, abut it was a all in one and had either floppy and cdrom or cdrom and zip disk built in ( ok it may have been floppy and cdrom and external zip - but that may have belong to the pizza box - to long ago )
Anyway i was able to connect both up, apple talk - i definately recall moving files between the 2 ( memory is vague as when doom came out on PC i was given some smc combo cards and ran co-axial under the house between 4 room s ( it is still there ) but late upgraded to 10/100 cat 5 - but none of those machines have 10/100 ethernet connectors
Wallstreet G3
Pcmcia cf adapter and localtalk adapters
Thank you very much foe the awesome content. Just wanted to ask how did you transfer the updated .img file onto the physical floppy? My modern MacBook doesn‘t have a floppy drive. I tried to use an external floppy drive but the disks are blocked and nothing can be dragged and dropped on them. Formatting floppy disks in DOS-format with the old Macintosh make them writeable with the modern MacBook but the .img file doesn‘t fit in the floppy. A „not enough space“ message is displayed. I am kind of stuck and would rather buy the floppy-Emu. Could you please provide some advice? Regards from Germany, Eduardo
Is using a Floppy Emu the only way? What if you have a USB floppy drive to plug into your modern Mac?
They come out with a IIGS version of that quarterstaff :)?
Man, sadly no. "Versions for the Apple IIGS and IBM PC were announced but never released." =(
Trying to burn Marathon from Mac Rep on a PC for a Performa 5200CD…using ISO
Great topic! I have Mac IIci, a 840av and 2 PowerBook 180's. Will be trying all of this when my Floppy Emu arrives. To digress a bit into the controversial, I always found that Amiga users were "real" users while with Mac it was more like a religion. LOLOLOL Unfortunately, I had given away all my Amigas. I kept the Macs because I had paid so much for them compared to my Amigas.
Slight correction: it’s not OS X Big Sur. It’s macOS 11 Big Sur
Thanks. It's hard for me to keep all of the capitalization and naming conventions straight these days. At least it doesn't have an "i" or "pro" thrown in there somewhere or I'd really be in trouble! =)
Spoiled? Try finding just a regular front panel for an Amiga 4000...
Hah! Good point. ;)
$200 I have one
You should not have unstuffed them in modern OS, you lost many of your icons. And you will really run into problems if you had tried to do this on a Windows host machine if they were in a zip. You should only unstuff within the emulator.
A Mac?? A MAC???? Unsubscribe, unfriend, unfollow, un-everything!🤣😉
I own about six Mac's, one 68K and five PPC. I actually never use them for anything, but I suppose I should.
It certainly is a pain to get data to them, unless the Mac has a CD- ROM.
Well, at least you don't cover Atari ST's... 😉
CD-ROM is a big help for sure. And since it comes as part of the OS with 7.5 and above, you're good to go I'd imagine. But getting the floppy images over with the Floppy Emu is such a great improvement over the tumbleweed wasteland that is new hardware for the old classic machines.
Which 68K Mac do you have? And any cool PPC variations? I've always lusted over the Cube but the slot loading CD/DVD is a total nightmare these days (again, with a lack of any real hardware support to speak of for such a widespread problem).
FWIW I'd kill for a mountable USB solution on the 68K Macs running 7.5.3 or below... (I'd even settle for USB 1.0!)