I wonder if they could have made the disk support work better by producing an interposer board to turn the (much simpler) Apple Disk II drive into a 1541, rather than butchering a 1541 to go the opposite way.
Adrian Black found that the 1541-compatible Enhancer 2000 was essentially that, right down to having a pin-compatible Disk II style interface internally. He tried using a real Disk II with the Enhancer's logic board, and had some success using it as a C64 drive: https://youtu.be/zGm5Jvo571g?t=5780
>Before later joining Apple as a senior engineer in the early 2000s, Brent claimed that, “the president of the company wrote himself a big cheque from the payroll account and took off for South America.” His claim is quoted as fact all over forums and blogs that are still live today, despite the final four words of his story: “according to legend, anyhow.”
Seems legit.
A friend of mine in 1984 bought an Apple //c instead of a Commodore 64 and Spartan, because the Spartan had compatibility problems with Apple ][+ software. Also you needed to mod the 1541 drive with the DOS card and press F6 to switch between Apple and Commodore modes. A good way to mess up disks.
I wonder if they could have made the disk support work better by producing an interposer board to turn the (much simpler) Apple Disk II drive into a 1541, rather than butchering a 1541 to go the opposite way.
Adrian Black found that the 1541-compatible Enhancer 2000 was essentially that, right down to having a pin-compatible Disk II style interface internally. He tried using a real Disk II with the Enhancer's logic board, and had some success using it as a C64 drive: https://youtu.be/zGm5Jvo571g?t=5780
It is so much worse than I imagined.
Seems legit.
A friend of mine in 1984 bought an Apple //c instead of a Commodore 64 and Spartan, because the Spartan had compatibility problems with Apple ][+ software. Also you needed to mod the 1541 drive with the DOS card and press F6 to switch between Apple and Commodore modes. A good way to mess up disks.