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Post #2 by Gorgonops
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryHardware
Post DateSat, 19 Sep 2009 - 19:05
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/making-400k-amp-800k-disk-images-on-a-modern-computer.18610/
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Of interest to me is the Disk2FDI which does not require any special hardware. It requires A Pentium® processor or better and A free parallel port, preferably from a dedicated PCI parallel port card. Would this run under an Intel Mac? If so, how would one get a Parallel port onto the Mac? A Keyspan adapter?
Disk2FDI needs a *real* parallel port, and runs under *DOS*. A USB parallel port won't work because it needs to twiddle the actual hardware bits via DMA, and it has to run under bare-metal DOS because timing is absolutely critical.

The only possible way I could see to run this on current Apple hardware would be if you could get a PCI-E parallel port card (I Googled, they do make such things... which surprised the heck out of me) working in a Mac Pro desktop. You'd be much better off digging a Pentium computer out of your neighbor's garbage can and using that.

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