Apple oldies disk images and tools for apple ii enthusiasts. Apple disk transfer prodos adtpro transfers physical disks and disk images between apple iiera computers and the modern world. Apple disk transfer prodos adtpro is a pair of programs that transfer diskettes and. The c cant run gsos, so i cant use any of the many gs hard disk images available on the web. Apple disk transfer prodos adtpro transfers classic 8bit apple disk images over a serial, ethernet or audio. A backup image may be stored on a usb drive, network storage, burned directly to cddvdbr discs, or kept on any other media.
A 32 meg hard drive image, also called volume image, is how prodos. If youd like to support my efforts to improve the apple ii. Beyond those bugs, there are a couple of larger issues that also need sorting out. Ron kneusels utility for making disk images from apple ii disks, and viceversa. If gsos was previously booted and is dormant, openappleq or openappleescape will quit back to gsos.
Floppy emu can use this disk image to boot your computer, when the emu is configured for smartport hard disk emulation mode. Sep 16, 2016 in addition to the bitsy boot boot utility, the prodos 2. Sep 15, 2016 bitsy boot takes only 1 block on disk. The maximum block count is 65535, though if you plan to use the disk image with vsdrive, a realistic maximum is 8192.
Hitting the r key from the main menu lets you enter the name of the disk image you want to copy from the host to a disk on. Thunderclock driver is updated to work through 2023. Apple disk transfer prodos adtpro is a pair of programs that transfer diskettes and disk images between apple iiera computers and the modern world. Apple disk transfer prodos adtpro transfers classic 8bit apple disk images over a serial, ethernet or audio link to a more modern computer. Prodos software collection for floppy emu big mess o wires. If you are lucky enough to have one of these machines, you can simply insert your pc formatted floppy in.
Files on disk have been organized for faster booting and file access. Shk easymount keychanger is a utility that lets you change the keyboard equivalent for the easy mount finder extension thats included with system 6. A raft of new features, wrapin programs, and bugfixes were included in this release, which i. General system utility and boot disk for the 8bit apple iis. For the trackstar to find and use the images as virtual hard drives, their filenames must be prodos. Each user no longer needs to create, setup, download, and organize. Sep 12, 2015 appleiiprodos access files on apple ii prodos disk images version this document describes version 0. Use lcd to change the directory on the native filesystem. This next step is simple, but is dependent on you having access to an older macintosh computer running system 7, 8 or 9. There is a host server component that runs on todays computers with jav. Fixes a rom bug in unenhanced apple e when quitting to bitsy bye with 80column mode enabled. If you use my disk image, maybe you should use the same rom. Appleiiprodos access files on apple ii prodos disk images version this document describes version 0.
Some commands for working with apple ii disk images. For this emulator, you want to download gsrom01 or gsrom03. The little running steps collection prodos 8 demos at the aztec c museum prodos 8 programs at the aztec c museum. In addition to the bitsy boot boot utility, the prodos 2. After 23 years, the apple ii gets another os update ars. Diskmaker is a utility that lets you take universal disk image. Creating a bootable prodos hard drive image vintage. Its a 32 mb bootable prodos disk image with an animated splash screen, and it uses the amazing bitsy bye program launcher to select from a variety of included games and utility programs. As of this writing, sosar is only capable of printing the directory of such a disk image file. I recently dug around on the internet and found both xgs32, an apple iigs emulator, and apples own freely downloadble gsos system 6. It can even get your apple running if you dont have any disks at all. There is a host server component that runs on modern computers with java, and an apple client component that runs on any apple ii or apple compatible.
Backup software for windows pcs download 64bit download 32bit professional edition, build 15. Nov 15, 2016 apple disk transfer prodos adtpro transfers diskettes and disk images between apple iiera computers and the modern world. Apple dos file system for mac free download and software. The host server component runs on todays computers with java, and the 8bit apple client component runs on any apple ii or apple. Apple disk images software free download apple disk images. Single and double lores and hires graphics in the c programming language.
I usually use ciderpress to copy files onto the drive image and then burn the file to a 27c801 eprom with a gq4x4 usb programmer. Creating a bootable prodos hard drive image excited geek. Floppy emu can use this disk image to boot your computer, when the emu is. The only gsos aka prodos 16 disk i had at the time only had the loader, not the finder or any other gsos apps. In addition to apple ii floppy disks and disk images, the trackstar e may also make use of up to two prodos hard drive images at once. As far as the emulator is concerned, i guess that both are about the same. Some example disk images are included in the download, but no rom images. Applecommander is currently able to read and display information about disk images, export files of various types, create disk images, import files into disk images, and has a rudimentary compiler. New minibas by usotsuki great for compilation disks, this tiny program can be used instead of basic. Apple disk transfer prodos adtpro transfers physical disks and disk images. For the apple c, im actually not sure how to make a 32 mb hard disk image with prodos and a collection of other software. Free apple ii disk image to download at shareware junction. If you are lucky enough to have one of these machines, you can simply insert your pc formatted floppy in the drive and drag the.
Dave schmenks projects page my projects to amuse and. Apple operating systems dos, prodos 8, gsos, basic. S is the source to the device driver developed using the merlin8 assembler. The latest adtpro can always be downloaded from the github releases page. The file is a macintosh diskcopy image representing an 800k 3. For what it is worth, i was using gsrom03 when i created the disk image below containing an installation of gsos. Apple disk images software apple disk transfer prodos for mac os v. Requires only 1 block on disk vs 21 blocks for basic. A data disk when booted or started for those wondering what the word booted means, thats formatted with prodos, will load up with a screen that may say something like. Name will make a new disk image that has the capacity specified in totalblocks. How to create disk image on mac os x with dd command. Any disk that uses a standard rwts readwrite tracksector routine can be copied in this manner. Change the current directory on the prodos volume to path. This is how i have created a bootable prodos hard drive image for use with both applewin and the floppy emu on my apple c.
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