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#1734 - 06/11/15 06:37 PM Apple II : Build your own SD Floppy
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The board :

Available on ebay here, http://www.ebay.com/itm/201369802455



Details how to build it from Nishida,

http://tulip-house.ddo.jp/DIGITAL/SDISK2/english.html

For UNIDISK version click here.

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SDISK II - DISK II emulator for APPLE II




Introduction

SDISK II is a DISK II emulator for Apple II series. You can use an image on an SD card instead of a 5 inch floppy disk.


Manual

Connecting an SDISK II with a DISK II INTERFACE CARD, an APPLE II can read from and write to a DOS 3.3 image (NIC file) recorded on an SD card. NIC is an original format, and a NIC file and a DSK file can be converted mutually.

An SDISK II selects a NIC file whose update time (time stamp) is the latest in the all NIC files that exist on the root directory of the SD card. When there is no NIC files on the root directory, the NIC file is generated from the DSK file with the latest update time automatically. The LED blinks while generating a NIC file.

The mutual conversion between a DSK file and a NIC file is done on PC. nic2dsk converts a NIC file to the DSK file, and dsk2nic is vice-versa.

Windows (source & binary, tested on XP)
Mac OS (source & binary, tested on 9, 10.2 and 10.3)

You can convert a DSK file to the NIC file by dragging it into dsk2nic icon. You can convert a NIC file to the DSK file by dragging it into nic2dsk icon.

Java (tested on Java 1.7.0_25)

I implemented a Java version. Double click DSK_NIC.jar, and drop a DSK file or a NIC file which you want to convert.


About INIT

Formatting the disk (INIT in BASIC, RWTS command 4) is not fully supported. SDISK II does not actually format the image, only ignore the command. SDISK II may cause an error or consume a long time while formatting the image on the SD card. I recommend to format the DSK file with an Apple II emulator.

I recommend to skip the INIT part (line 250) of COPYA.


About Write Protect

The disk image is write protected eather if the NIC file is read only, or if the LOCK switch on the SD card is ON.


Notes

Please be sure to format the SD card with FAT16.

If you can not mount a NIC file, remove the card and plug it again several times. Plugging it, confirm that the LED lights up immediately, and goes out.

I confirmed that an SDISK II works with an Apple II JPLUS, an Apple IIe and an Apple II GS (ROM1). Apple II ROM3 also supported (Oct.25/2013).

About Apple IIc, see the blog article Connect an SDISK II with an Apple IIc.

I've just confirmed the read, write and initialize operations with RWTS routines.

The speed of writing doesn't reach DISK II, and it depends on the kind of the SD card.

To prevent accidental data loss, please make sure you have the backup.

I designed SDISK II assuming that you use an SD card between 32MB and 2GB, but there may be compatible problems.


Hardware Connections

See connector below.


Notice

Any damage when SDISK II is used is not guaranteed in Nishida radio.


Firmware, Schematic and PCB

You can download the firmware source code and the schematic here.

You can get the PCB gerber file here.

Remark : use Hirose DM1B-DSF-PEJ SD card socket

In fact, the archive of UNISDISK firmware also includes another firmware of SDISK II which also has a SmartPort emulator. Thanks

I thank to the customers who bought the SD card reader, the former work. I thank to everybody who have opened various technical intelligence to the public.


Connector

Code:
					/	\			
1	3	5	7	9	11	13	15	17	19
2	4	6	8	10	12	14	16	18	20



Code:
1:GND
2:STEP0
4:STEP1
6:STEP2
8:STEP3
10:WRITE REQUEST'
12:+5V
14:DRIVE ENABLE'
16:READ PULSE
18:WRITE SIGNAL
20:WRITE PROTECT
others:NC


Attachments
pic0.jpg

pic1.jpg

pic2.jpg

connector.jpg

sdisk2util.zip (60 downloads)

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#1735 - 06/11/15 06:37 PM Re: Apple II : Build your own SD Floppy [Re: Admin]
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Quote:
798-DM1B-DSF-PEJ82 (SDCard socket )
595-SN74HC125N ( U2 )
717-9B-27.000MAAJ-B ( XTAL )
556-ATMEGA328P-PN ( 105C temp rating )
511-L78L33ACZ ( U3 )
576-39501250440 (fuse, 125ma)
667-ECA-0JM221 ( C1,C2 )
594-K100J15C0GF5TH5 (C3,C4)
594-K104K15X7RF5TH5 ( C5 )
594-K223K15X7RF5UH5 ( C6 )
710-61202023021 (20pin IDC)


Attachments
sdisk2util.mac.zip (26 downloads)
DSK_NIC.jar.zip (37 downloads)
sdisk2.zip (76 downloads)
CAM_SDISK2_328.zip (66 downloads)

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#1762 - 06/12/15 08:00 PM Re: Apple II : Build your own SD Floppy [Re: Admin]
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Unidisk source code compatible with .dsk files,

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Attachments
UNISDISK_SDISK2P_20140719.zip (32 downloads)

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#18284 - 03/11/19 06:05 PM Re: Apple II : Build your own SD Floppy [Re: Admin]
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Registered: 03/11/19
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Loc: France
Hi,
This is for the UnisDisk floppy emulator. It won't work with SD DISK II.
As Nishida doesn't make the card anymore, do you have any PCB or schematics ?
Best regards

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#18285 - 03/11/19 08:33 PM Re: Apple II : Build your own SD Floppy [Re: Didier Dubos]
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Plamen still does them in Bulgaria, yes our japanese friend stop due to health problems.

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#23191 - 03/16/21 11:54 PM Re: Apple II : Build your own SD Floppy [Re: Admin]
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Registered: 03/16/21
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You can order them on PCBway (I'm not affiliated). I ordered a couple a while back and got it working with the instructions here.

https://www.pcbway.com/project/shareproject/W236257ASZ6_CAM_SDISK2_328.html

Does anyone know how to switch to a different disk image while it's in the SDISK? It has no buttons and now it always loads the image with the latest date stamp.

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#24548 - 07/17/22 08:50 PM Re: Apple II : Build your own SD Floppy [Re: Admin]
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Hello everyone, I can't find the FUSE bits in the hardware description. Can someone tell me the fuse bits here.
Thank you once again for the help.

matti

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#24549 - 07/17/22 11:49 PM Re: Apple II : Build your own SD Floppy [Re: Matti]
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Just program as is the HEX, it should have all set properly.

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Originally Posted By: Matti
Hello everyone, I can't find the FUSE bits in the hardware description. Can someone tell me the fuse bits here.
Thank you once again for the help.

matti
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#24559 - 07/28/22 07:35 PM Re: Apple II : Build your own SD Floppy [Re: Admin]
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Hello,
this Fuse Bits are correct:
Low:0x80
Hight:0xD9
Ext:0xFF
Lock:0xFF

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#24560 - 07/28/22 08:07 PM Re: Apple II : Build your own SD Floppy [Re: Admin]
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Thank you !

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#25198 - 01/15/24 11:50 PM Re: Apple II : Build your own SD Floppy [Re: Admin]
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There are updated versions of this board that use an LCD or OLED display and buttons to change the image loaded.

I also made simple command line versions of dsk2nic and nic2dsk which compile under Linux and probably will under MacOS also.

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#25199 - 01/16/24 10:57 AM Re: Apple II : Build your own SD Floppy [Re: Software Janitor]
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Great Job and thank you for the update, if you can post the github links, it could be good for some members !

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Originally Posted By: Software Janitor
There are updated versions of this board that use an LCD or OLED display and buttons to change the image loaded.

I also made simple command line versions of dsk2nic and nic2dsk which compile under Linux and probably will under MacOS also.
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#25203 - 01/17/24 11:40 PM Re: Apple II : Build your own SD Floppy [Re: Admin]
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The github link for my dsk2nic and nic2dsk utilities is here:

https://github.com/softwarejanitor/sdisk2util_linux

One of the newer UNISDISK derived projects is here:

https://github.com/btb/SDisk2



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