The two halves of the case are secured by four screws through the body of the unit. The body of the drive is some black plastic, and feels moderately solid with some unthreaded screwholes for mounting if one wishes. And of course, the most important port – the USB port. It also features a Green LED for power and a Red LED for access, and two push buttons – one to increment the floppy being accessed, another to decrement.
It features a two-digit 7-segment display on the front panel which displays 00 to 99 for a total of 100 floppies. In fact, the picture on the eBay posting couldn’t be more honest – as it includes the masking tape over the display which I subsequently removed. The floppy emulator in question is this one from eBay. But I guess there isn’t a better time to give it a go. I just never got around to it! I never completely worked out how it “worked” either.
In fact, I had purchased one a while back, and I tested it, and I intended to blog about it.
If your BOOTI card is currently working and you want to upgrade the EEPROM firmare:
Just copy your files onto the root (top level) of the drive. You should be able to use USB sticks without reformatting.SanDisk and Verbatim USB 2.0 sticks (4 Gb or less) seem to work best. Some USB sticks work better than others.Due to high demand, there is a limit of one BOOTI card per customer.
In GS/OS, the size of a device is limited to 8GB provided that you use either an HFS volume or an ISO image. This mode offers up to eight devices in ProDOS and GS/OS. SmartPort Mode ( only for enhanced Apple IIe and IIGS).This mode is limited to 65535 blocks of 0x200 bytes each for a total of 32 MB storage. Block Mode with support for up to eight devices (all machines).You can convert DOS floppy disk images to ProDOS order using the dsk2po Python utility. po/.dsk/.2mg/.iso/.hdv/.do, as long as the image is in ProDOS block order (not track/sector order). The BOOTI card is a block device emulator that allows you to mount up to 8 devices in the following computers:ĭisk images can be in. Get your Apple II BOOTI on with this USB Hard Drive Emulator Card from David Mutimer, with firmware by Marko Ramius.