On Wednesday 16 April 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/16/08 21:15, PETER EASTHOPE wrote: > > Folk, > > > > I have a copy of ProDOS-System.zip which unzips > > to "Apple II System Disk 3.2.dc". > > > > Can a Debian make a ProDOS boot diskette? > > Should dd work? > > dd should be able to do it, if the hardware is capable. But I doubt > it, since "PC-style" floppy drives are soft-sector, and IIRC the > Apple drives were hard-sector.
I think Apple drives were soft sector, since I remember reading the info in "Beneath Apple DOS" and "Beneath Apple ProDOS" about how the sectors were defined and which bytes were used. Also some of the games, I think, used games with the track and sector layout for copy protection. I remember specifically having to hack and remove the copy protection on at least one program and it involved editing the sector id codes. The problem, though, is that Apple disks were not compatible with PC drives and I think they had a different type of formatting that the "regular"drives didn't deal with (other than hard/soft sector). I do know there are Apple ][ and //e (and maybe //c) emulators that run on Linux and if you have an image of the Apple ROMs, they'll run find on Debian. (I wish I still had the images of the ROMs in my //e -- I had a few cool extra features that made debugging and tracing much easier.) Hal (Who still misses his Apple //e with a *fully socketed* motherboard, a whopping 5 MB hard drive and who actually enjoyed programming in 6502 Assembler!) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
