Sam Latella

I just received the new CFFA card and have been testing one in an apple //e
and another in an Apple IIgs.

All I can say is WOW it is simply INCREDIBLE! I was able to use it with a
32mb compact flash card on the //e and installed a couple of old games from
yesteryear - Jungle Hunt and Ms. Pacman. I couldn't believe it, everything
worked like a charm and booted off the computer without the whirr and click
of the disk ][ drive. The CFFA card is a brilliant design and has a great
finished polish to it. I ended up playing Jungle Hunt for a several minutes
and then tried Ms. Pacman once I got that started the kids in the other room
heard it and came running in. I soon had to leave and let them play with
the Apple //e. I am just amazed that a machine that is 30 years old gets so
much usage and with this new card it will get even more. Just need a little
more time to get the great Apple II software installed on this card.

I didn't have much time to look at the IIgs, but I did install the CFFA card
on a stock IIgs Rom 01, but was unsuccesful to get it running right away. I
just didn't have the time to play with it fully, it has a 192mg compact
flash card setup for it. Tomorrow I hope to get it up and running.

Has anyone used the usb on this card with a usb extender cable? If possible
I would like to use a usb extender that would basically be outside the IIgs
or //e and when I need to transfer files I wouldn't have to open up the IIgs
or //e to get the compact flash card, I would just copy it from a usb stick
to the compact flash card inside the machine. Hope this is doable without
ruining the card.

Thank-you for your time,
Sam

Sean Fahey

On Sunday, November 6, 2011 6:26:46 PM UTC-6, Sam Latella wrote:

> Has anyone used the usb on this card with a usb extender cable? If possible
> I would like to use a usb extender that would basically be outside the IIgs
> or //e and when I need to transfer files I wouldn't have to open up the IIgs
> or //e to get the compact flash card, I would just copy it from a usb stick
> to the compact flash card inside the machine. Hope this is doable without
> ruining the card.

Works fine.

David Schmidt

On 11/6/2011 7:26 PM, Sam Latella wrote:
> I didn't have much time to look at the IIgs, but I did install the CFFA card
> on a stock IIgs Rom 01, but was unsuccesful to get it running right away.

With the GS, if it's not in slot 7, you do need to set the slot to be
"Your Card" in the control panel. If you want to have virtual floppy
drives in a different slot than the one the physical card is plugged
into, then _that_ slot needs to be set to "Your Card" as well.

> Has anyone used the usb on this card with a usb extender cable?

As Sean says, it's not only possible, but encouraged. It saves
mechanical wear on the connector on the card. You can also plug in
multi-card adapters and use all sorts of memory devices; just note that
you can't use a USB hub.

To see a multi-card adapter in use, I used one in this video at 1:40:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q113bbwR5A

sdspitfire@hotmail.com

On Mon, 7 Nov 2011 00:26:46 +0000 (UTC), powergs@macgui.com (Sam
Latella) wrote:

>I just received the new CFFA card and have been testing one in an apple //e
>and another in an Apple IIgs.
>
>All I can say is WOW it is simply INCREDIBLE! I was able to use it with a
>32mb compact flash card on the //e and installed a couple of old games from
>yesteryear - Jungle Hunt and Ms. Pacman. I couldn't believe it, everything
>worked like a charm and booted off the computer without the whirr and click
>of the disk ][ drive. The CFFA card is a brilliant design and has a great
>finished polish to it. I ended up playing Jungle Hunt for a several minutes
>and then tried Ms. Pacman once I got that started the kids in the other room
>heard it and came running in. I soon had to leave and let them play with
>the Apple //e. I am just amazed that a machine that is 30 years old gets so
>much usage and with this new card it will get even more. Just need a little
>more time to get the great Apple II software installed on this card.
>
>I didn't have much time to look at the IIgs, but I did install the CFFA card
>on a stock IIgs Rom 01, but was unsuccesful to get it running right away. I
>just didn't have the time to play with it fully, it has a 192mg compact
>flash card setup for it. Tomorrow I hope to get it up and running.
>
>Has anyone used the usb on this card with a usb extender cable? If possible
>I would like to use a usb extender that would basically be outside the IIgs
>or //e and when I need to transfer files I wouldn't have to open up the IIgs
>or //e to get the compact flash card, I would just copy it from a usb stick
>to the compact flash card inside the machine. Hope this is doable without
>ruining the card.
>
>Thank-you for your time,
>Sam

I have to echo Sam's statements on the CFFA3000 card. It is an amazing
device. Kudos to Rich. I want to also thank Rich for helping me with
the installation. It took me some time to understand the concept.

Mine is in a ROM1 GS in slot 7, set up for floppy disk drive
emulation. A 4gb CF card will hold all the Prodos and GS/OS images,
mostly 800k images, and a 8gb USB stick (on an extender cable) will
hold all the DOS, 140k images. I still have an original CF card in
slot 1 set up for 'block' devices (hard drives).

All the software I have will easily fit onto the memory cards. No more
fumbling through boxes of floppies, hoping they still work.

So, just turn the machine on, press the cda keys, select which floppy
image to boot, and voila, there it is. Do nothing and it boots into
GS/OS 6.0.1.

Again, thanks,

Ken C

Chuck Morris

On Nov 7, 8:52*am, sdspitf...@hotmail.com wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Nov 2011 00:26:46 +0000 (UTC), powe...@macgui.com (Sam
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Latella) wrote:
> >I just received the new CFFA card and have been testing one in an apple //e
> >and another in an Apple IIgs.
>
> >All I can say is WOW it is simply INCREDIBLE! *I was able to use it with a
> >32mb compact flash card on the //e and installed a couple of old games from
> >yesteryear - Jungle Hunt and Ms. Pacman. *I couldn't believe it, everything
> >worked like a charm and booted off the computer without the whirr and click
> >of the disk ][ drive. *The CFFA card is a brilliant design and has a great
> >finished polish to it. *I ended up playing Jungle Hunt for a several minutes
> >and then tried Ms. Pacman once I got that started the kids in the other room
> >heard it and came running in. *I soon had to leave and let them play with
> >the Apple //e. *I am just amazed that a machine that is 30 years old gets so
> >much usage and with this new card it will get even more. *Just need a little
> >more time to get the great Apple II software installed on this card.
>
> >I didn't have much time to look at the IIgs, but I did install the CFFA card
> >on a stock IIgs Rom 01, but was unsuccesful to get it running right away.. *I
> >just didn't have the time to play with it fully, it has a 192mg compact
> >flash card setup for it. Tomorrow I hope to get it up and running.
>
> >Has anyone used the usb on this card with a usb extender cable? If possible
> >I would like to use a usb extender that would basically be outside the IIgs
> >or //e and when I need to transfer files I wouldn't have to open up the IIgs
> >or //e to get the compact flash card, I would just copy it from a usb stick
> >to the compact flash card inside the machine. *Hope this is doable without
> >ruining the card.
>
> >Thank-you for your time,
> >Sam
>
> I have to echo Sam's statements on the CFFA3000 card. It is an amazing
> device. Kudos to Rich. I want to also thank Rich for helping me with
> the installation. It took me some time to understand the concept.
>
> Mine is in a ROM1 GS in slot 7, set up for floppy disk drive
> emulation. A 4gb CF card will hold all the Prodos and GS/OS images,
> mostly 800k images, and a 8gb USB stick (on an extender cable) will
> hold all the DOS, 140k images. I still have an original CF card in
> slot 1 set up for 'block' devices (hard drives).
>
> All the software I have will easily fit onto the memory cards. No more
> fumbling through boxes of floppies, hoping they still work.
>
> So, just turn the machine on, press the cda keys, select which floppy
> image to boot, and voila, there it is. Do nothing and it boots into
> GS/OS 6.0.1.
>
> Again, thanks,
>
> Ken C

I love mine (on a IIGS), but unless I am missing something, it seems
that there is a limit to the number of images that you can put on a CF
card or USB stick and see in the CDA. It appears to me that the limit
is something less than 300 or so. I am filling my CF card with hard
drive images, and using USB sticks for floppy images, and swapping
those in and out using a USB extension cable. Assuming that the limit
on the number of accessible images is not just my imagination, there
really is no point to using larger USB sticks for floppy images, so I
have a bunch of 256 mb sticks ordered.

David Schmidt

On 11/7/2011 1:38 PM, Chuck Morris wrote:
> I love mine (on a IIGS), but unless I am missing something, it seems
> that there is a limit to the number of images that you can put on a CF
> card or USB stick and see in the CDA.

That's probably true: I at least didn't test it to the failure point.
Since you can only have a flat (root) directory, it doesn't make sense
to dump everything imaginable into one pile and pick from there. It's
not really practical. So, unless/until a subdirectory structure becomes
part of the image-choosing scheme, a reasonable scheme would be to keep
only your first couple hundred favorite disk images on a stick at a
time. ;-)

Steven Hirsch

On 11/07/2011 01:46 PM, David Schmidt wrote:
> On 11/7/2011 1:38 PM, Chuck Morris wrote:
>> I love mine (on a IIGS), but unless I am missing something, it seems
>> that there is a limit to the number of images that you can put on a CF
>> card or USB stick and see in the CDA.
>
> That's probably true: I at least didn't test it to the failure point. Since
> you can only have a flat (root) directory, it doesn't make sense to dump
> everything imaginable into one pile and pick from there. It's not really
> practical. So, unless/until a subdirectory structure becomes part of the
> image-choosing scheme, a reasonable scheme would be to keep only your first
> couple hundred favorite disk images on a stick at a time. ;-)

ISTR that the FAT filesystem had a hard limit for number of files in the root
directory.

magnusfalkirk

On Nov 7, 3:24*pm, Steven Hirsch <snhir...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/07/2011 01:46 PM, David Schmidt wrote:
>
> > On 11/7/2011 1:38 PM, Chuck Morris wrote:
> >> I love mine (on a IIGS), but unless I am missing something, it seems
> >> that there is a limit to the number of images that you can put on a CF
> >> card or USB stick and see in the CDA.
>
> > That's probably true: I at least didn't test it to the failure point. Since
> > you can only have a flat (root) directory, it doesn't make sense to dump
> > everything imaginable into one pile and pick from there. It's not really
> > practical. So, unless/until a subdirectory structure becomes part of the
> > image-choosing scheme, a reasonable scheme would be to keep only your first
> > couple hundred favorite disk images on a stick at a time. ;-)
>
> ISTR that the FAT filesystem had a hard limit for number of files in the root
> directory.

From what I read on the forums at Rich's website the limit is 256
files, that is until he gets a sub-directory system worked into it.

Dean