[EMAIL PROTECTED] @ [EMAIL PROTECTED] . 12/04/2005 04:48 PM
>Hi,
>
>After lurking for a while I decided after the recent post about getting
>DOS that
>I'd run something by everyone.
>
>A couple of years ago I got the urge, and bought a IIe system in order to
>wax
>nostalgic over my early days in computing. But like the recent poster I had
>drives, I had diskettes (found some used ones), but NO DOS. What to do?
>
>Well, I used a PC-based Apple II emulator that could do cassette IO on the
>PC.
>Then I wrote a quick basic program that basically peeked all of DOS and and
>wrote out a string of data statements I could use to poke it back in.
>Then I
>wrote this generated program a wave (or mp3) file using the cassette i/o
>of the
>emulator. So now comes the interesting part... By just playing back the
>audio
>file into the cassette-in of the Apple II and running the program, bingo -
>DOS!
>Then a simple INIT and the disk becomes bootable and I now had a dos-enabled
>machine.
>
>So I thought I'd share this in case anyone wanted to try the trick
>themselves.
>But more importantly I was wondering if there was enough demand for this
>sort of
>thing that some site out there would want to host the mp3 file and
>instructions
>on bootstrapping. It took a while to figure it all out and get it to
>work, but
>anyone with an audio equipped PC should be able to just play the file into
>their
>apple and go. I suppose you could even write it to a CD and play a
>CD-player
>into the Apple and get it to work.
>
>The best part is that this is exactly the kind of weird workarounds that
>made
>the original Apple days so fun!
>
>Let me know what you think.
>
>Cheers,
>Robert
Hi Robert,
What you have done sounds very interesting ! I maybe able to get your
file and docs onto the Apple OneWorld Website if your interested.! I am
interesting to learning what you have done my self.
regards
Jim
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