Lisa Native floppy emulation

400k-floppy-drive

Steve at Big Mess o’ Wires writes:

Lisa floppy drive emulation with Floppy Emu is a success! Begone, evil rotational disk drives, with your failure-prone gummed-up mechanisms. The age of SD card Lisa floppy emulation is here!
After a lot of tinkering, it’s now working on both the Lisa 2/5 and 2/10, and for both Lisa-format and Mac-format disks. I’m able to boot the Lisa from the emulated floppy drive, and use it to install Lisa Office System and other apps to the HD, and copy apps and data files from the Lisa HD to the emulated floppy drive. It also works for Mac-format disks, when running the Lisa under Macworks.
The final hurdle was realizing that the custom adapter I’d built to simultaneously connect a 400K floppy drive and a Floppy Emu was causing problems. After getting rid of the adapter and connecting the Emu directly to the Lisa, in place of the normal floppy drive, it’s now working perfectly.

Project info at Big Mess o’ Wires.

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