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I remember the first time I had my first prototype of what will become the SmartDisk II loading the NIB image of BoulderDash II on my Apple II.

The first prototype was made on a very poor quality breadboard with a STM32 Bluepill, with a lot of ICs. The process to load NIB image was not really accurate, but I was so proud of having at least something working. 

This was the beginning of my journey to design and build an accurate Apple II Disk Emulator. I reached out to the Applefritter community for help on this project, and I received more than what I was hopping. This was a few month of long hardworking and debugging session with a lot of up and down along this way.

The purpose of this project was really a personal goal to experiment, learn, understand, and build. My approach from the beginning was … Read the rest