[vcf-midatlantic] AppleSauce

[Jonathan Gevaryahu]

When installing those sync sensors in the disk][ for the applesauce, I 
always found the fact that you have to pry up the disk hub to make the 
sync sensor fit between the bottom of the spindle-strobe-hub to be 
extremely scary, (and may actually be breaking a retaining washer?), and 
entirely unnecessary.

Instead, you can use a pair of angled wire cutters to CAREFULLY cut the 
sticky magnet in half down the long way (possibly with a few 'bites') so 
it becomes a thinner slice with the sticker on it, and then remove the 
sticker to expose the glue and stick the now thinner slice onto the 
bottom of the spindle-strobe-hub (which the drive motor belt goes 
around). If you do this, there is no prying necessary, and it still 
works fine.

Its possible the newer applesauce devices (mine was from the first run) 
have a thinner sticky magnet included with the sync sensor, so this 
isn't necessary at all anymore.

On 1/31/2019 7:26 PM, Dean Notarnicola via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
> The sync sensor needs to be installed in the disk ][. That's the worst of
> it.
>
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 7:10 PM Henry S. Courbis via vcf-midatlantic <
> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
>
>> Applesauce info:
>> https://wiki.reactivemicro.com/Applesauce
>>
>> John's Website:
>> https://applesaucefdc.com/
>>
>>
>>> We (Ian, Alex J., etc.) can build it at the next workshop.
>> Shouldn't be much to "build".  Just connect to a Mac and load the client
>> software.  Done.  It's really that simple.
>>
>>
>>
>>> this thing should be able to make exact working copies.
>> "Crate an image" is more in line with what it does.  I know John had been
>> working on the client's ability to write images back out to floppy, however
>> it wasn't his core concept or feature push.  And some protections can't be
>> written back out as they used special drives or production methods the Disk
>> II can't reproduce.  So writing success may be limited.
>>
>> You can however make raw and .WOZ images for use in emulators, which are
>> exact as possible images with the protection intact.  Jason Scott for
>> example has a live stream setup when using Applesauce for Internet Archives
>> activities:
>> https://www.twitch.tv/textfilesdotcom.  So you can get an idea of how it
>> works as well as how to use the UI there.
>>
>> I've been twisting John's arm a bit and we might even get to work on a
>> hardware based emulator soon to make use of the new image files.  He's also
>> working on setting up a server to host images users have created.
>>
>> $.02
>>
>>
>>
>> Henry S. Courbis
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>> On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 9:31 AM Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic <
>> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
>>
>>> John Morris donated the deluxe version of his new-ish "AppleSauce" disk
>>> imaging hardware to us (it should arrive in a week or so.)
>>>
>>> We (Ian, Alex J., etc.) can build it at the next workshop.
>>>
>>> It requires a Mac with OS version 10.11 or newer. John said that's pretty
>>> much any Mac from mid-2009 or newer.
>>>
>>> So everyone is welcome to bring uncracked Apple II disks to the next
>>> workshop, and this thing should be able to make exact working copies.
>>>
>>> Wish I had that in 7th grade! Got in trouble for trying to copy Newsroom.
>>> :)  Copy II+ wasn't up to the task.
>>>

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