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Acrylic Cases Back in Stock
Acrylic cases for the BMOW Floppy Emu and ADB-USB Wombat are back in stock. If you’ve been waiting for one of these, your wait is over. The Floppy Emu cases were held up longer than expected due to...
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Floppy Emu Restock and Retro Puzzle Contest
The BMOW Floppy Emu disk emulator is back in stock and shipping now. Get yours and other BMOW hardware goodies at the store. But before you place your order, you might wish to try your hand at a...
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Retro Puzzle Contest: Solution
On Monday I posted a retro puzzle contest for vintage computing fans. Starting with only a confusing image of jumbled 8-bit characters, I promised that players would proceed through a tricky series of...
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Redesigning an Acrylic Case
The acrylic case for BMOW’s Floppy Emu disk emulator is back in stock, along with the deluxe bundle of Floppy Emu with the case and SD card. Get them now at the BMOW store. This is a new version of...
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Floppy Emu Update: Apple II Copy-Protection
Good news for Apple II fans: there’s a new Apple II firmware update for the BMOW Floppy Emu Disk Emulator. This update introduces substantial emulation enhancements for copy-protected Apple II...
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BMOW Product Updates
The Mac ROM-inator II is back in stock – get yours now at the BMOW Store. The ROM-inator II is a replacement ROM SIMM for Macintosh II series computers and the Mac SE/30, adding a bootable ROM disk,...
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Floppy Emu Update: WOZ Writes, Dual 5.25 Emulation, and More!
Today I’m excited to introduce a major new feature update for the BMOW Floppy Emu Disk Emulator. The latest firmware for use with Apple II computers adds the three most frequently requested new...
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Floppy Emu Update: Smartport Daisy-Chain Support
As of today, the BMOW Floppy Emu disk emulator now offers two different firmware versions for Apple II users: a normal version and a Smartport daisy chain version. You’ll find them both in the...
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New Product Release: Dual 5.25 Adapter for Disk II, and Apple IIc Drive...
Today Big Mess o’ Wires is releasing two new products for use with the BMOW Floppy Emu disk emulator for Apple computers. Remember the dual 5.25 inch floppy emulation mode that was announced back in...
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Dark Castle Bugs
Here’s a brief follow-up about the classic Macintosh game Dark Castle, which I mentioned a few weeks ago in connection with some possible disk emulation bugs. This game originally shipped on two 400K...
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New Cases for the Daisy Chainer!
Hello! If you haven’t met me already, I’m Alice, the BMOW engineering intern. (You might hear more about what I’ve been up to soon.) I’m excited to share that after several stages of redesign, cases...
View ArticleFloppy Emu Update: Smartport and More
Hello! I’m Alice, the engineering intern here at Big Mess o’ Wires. I’m a math with computer science major at UC San Diego, and throughout the summer I’ve been working on some fixes and improvements...
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The Amazing Disk II Controller Card
In the world of Apple II disks, there are two major types of disk controller cards: the original Disk II controller (and clones), and everything else. Both have their place. The “everything else”...
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Apple IIc Drive Switcher and ADB-USB Wombat: Back in Stock
BMOW’s Internal/External Drive Switcher for Apple IIc is back in stock! Select which 5.25 inch floppy drive should act as bootable Drive 1: the external Floppy Emu disk emulator or the IIc’s internal...
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Floppy Emu Update: Multi-Disk Fix
There’s a new Apple II firmware update for the BMOW Floppy Emu Disk Emulator. This update makes a small but important change to the emulated drive behavior after a disk is ejected. The current track...
View ArticleNoisy Disk 5.25 Inch Mechanical Sound Maker
The Noisy Disk is back in stock at the BMOW store, after a manufacturing delay. Do you miss the iconic sounds of mechanical click-clacking from original Apple II floppy drives? Does the familiar...
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Floppy Emu Update: UI Goodies and More
Please enjoy this new update for the BMOW Floppy Emu disk emulator as we head into the Thanksgiving holiday week. The new firmware brings a UI refresh, scrolling of long filenames, bug fixes,...
View ArticleFloppy Emu Update: Odds and Ends
Here’s one more firmware update for the BMOW Floppy Emu disk emulator for classic Apple computers. This update resolves some minor problems and inconsistencies that were discovered in the previous...
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An Idea for Macintosh Disk Daisy-Chaining
The Apple II family of computers supports daisy chaining disk drives, but the classic Macintosh family sadly does not. This means it’s impossible to create a Mac equivalent of Floppy Emu‘s Apple II...
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MOOF disk image support for Floppy Emu
Good news! Today’s BMOW Floppy Emu firmware update brings support for the Macintosh MOOF disk image format. MOOF is a new disk image format for 3.5 inch Macintosh floppy disks, designed by John K....
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