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Apple II: Support for the AE "Vulcan" internal IDE HDD that fits into a replacement power supply. Obviously several aspects of that setup make no sense in emulation ;-)

The ROM dump we had has what appears to be anti-upgrade protection; it wouldn't allow a drive bigger than 40 megs, possibly to prevent field upgrades. Also many of the list of drive models the partition utilities recognize have a special value in one of the IDE Vendor Specific fields so until Uncle Phil comes up with "CHD gives IDE Features Page" instead of it being hardcoded in idectrl.c there's a limited set of image sizes you can use.

Anyway, I now patch the ROM to disable the protection and here's the result:

c64: VizaStar cartridge + disk



Had a little time to heat up the (de)soldering iron and this fell out the other end