Does anyone here sell or have files for emulating a ProFile drive for an Apple Lisa? I have a dead Profile 5MB drive i'd like to convert over (doesn't go through full seek) but the two options I know of aren't the most desirable. IDEFile (or whatever) is pretty expensive and afaik isn't the best at emulation, while the ArcaneByte emulators are out of production due to the boards they use going out of production.
ProFile Drive Emulator for Lisa?
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You're in luck - my friend and fellow Lisa nerd, Alex, has pretty much exactly what you're looking for. The Cameo/Aphid setup was fantastic, but the evaporation of PocketBeagles has made them hard to find.
Alex's ProFile emulator uses an Arduino Mega 2560 and runs Tom Stepleton's "Selector" software (what the Cameo runs) and is very nice. I can't recall all the limitations it has vs. the Cameo but, for general HD emulation, they are probably not going to impact you. I've had mine connected to both of my Lisas running pretty much all the OSes the Lisa will run and without any issues: LOS, MacOS via MacWorks (including the PFG version), UniPlus, and Xenix. At VCFSW this year, Alex even had GEM running off of it. His GitHub repo is here.
I may have a couple blank PCBs floating around my shop; I'll take a look this weekend and see if I can find one. If you're in the US (and I have one), it's yours for the cost of shipping.
Alex's ProFile emulator uses an Arduino Mega 2560 and runs Tom Stepleton's "Selector" software (what the Cameo runs) and is very nice. I can't recall all the limitations it has vs. the Cameo but, for general HD emulation, they are probably not going to impact you. I've had mine connected to both of my Lisas running pretty much all the OSes the Lisa will run and without any issues: LOS, MacOS via MacWorks (including the PFG version), UniPlus, and Xenix. At VCFSW this year, Alex even had GEM running off of it. His GitHub repo is here.
I may have a couple blank PCBs floating around my shop; I'll take a look this weekend and see if I can find one. If you're in the US (and I have one), it's yours for the cost of shipping.