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I'm writing this at the dining table because the Apple IIc Plus is at the desk grinding away on a Mandelbrot set. Once it's finished this run, I'll save it, turn it off and get the MBP set back up. I've had a little success getting applications transferred to the MegaFlash virtual drives. Where I have had some difficulty is with getting the Floppy Emu to mount hard drive images. For reasons I don't understand, a 32MB hard drive image must be stored in contiguous blocks on the microSD card. In the past, the way to deal with this was to copy everything from the microSD card to the Desktop on the Mac, delete the contents of the microSD card, and then copy the folder back. It didn't seem to work for the latest version of Total Replay, a collection of several hundred games for the Apple II, which have been converted to ProDOS and wrapped in a launcher platform. I have an earlier version that came with the MegaFlash, but they're often adding games and squashing bugs, so I wanted the latest…

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