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.