Re: Apple IIe/IIe+ prodos in rom?

["Brad Weelborg" <mrbrad@ll.net>]

Terence J. Boldt <apple2@cgocable.net> wrote in message
931294198.2781@www.remarq.com">news:931294198.2781@www.remarq.com...
> >advertised as an "instant AppleWorks". The idea
> >was you sent in a disk with a copy of
> >AppleWorks configured the way you wanted it
> >and they would program the EPROMs and send
> >them back on a card. Presumably the disk also
> >had to have ProDOS on it.
>
> >There was someone in this newsgroup recently
> >who was working on a new Apple II ROM disk
> >card. Sorry, I've forgotten who it was.
>
> That would be me!  I will be accepting disk images similar
> to what is described above.  Currently I only have 512KB
> EPROM's but my drive supports up to 1MB.  This should be
> sufficient for most people.  I just finished the PCB layout
> for the final design this week.  The prototype has been
> running without a single failure for two months.  I should
> have the first few cards to test in a couple weeks.  Check
> out my web page for the latest updates:
>
> http://www.cgocable.net/~apple2/romdrive.html
>
> -- Terence J. Boldt
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this may be a little off topic but i have some old apple // gs bbs pkgs
running off a network
(networked ibm pkg called worldgroup with tcp/ip internet connectivity)

they are accessable via telnet from either
telnet://lost-gonzo.com
or
www.lost-gonzo.com

on main menu   as ap2/fv and ap2/tpro
1) apple // gs upgrade kit running on 14mhz transwarp (since 91) running
futurevision/metal 4.0xev
     with monochrome ansi/proterm/asci and around 30 games

2nd apple // gs running Tpro RPG 4.2f bbs pkg...it is essentially a large D
& D game with a bbs
built around the game. Also has the old star wars adv game w/the light saber
you go from room
to room..pretty wild

anyway... i'm always looking for ideas/mods/uploads to the apple file area
(also accessable via the www site)
projects...so if you have anything interesting in that form i'll stick the
file up in the apple 2 file area and/or
we can showcase some hardware projects.

which leads me to the point of all this...hardware wise:

i have a chip with a cable switch on it ..it is a switchit? chip i think it
was called.. it replaced the eprom ROM
with old apple text the org  // e used with the rom upgrade for the // e to
mousetext

this chip allows you to switch between old apple // e rom's and the upgrade
kit for the // e roms

essentially eprom size shrunk and allowed a person to copy both rom's add a
cable to the dual rom
put in the single rom spot and switch between unenhanced and enhanced // e

anyway figured that may be an easy project for someone hardware wise..i
think there is an article someplace
in my files from A+ mag on how to do this..i'll dig it up if any interest

anyhow that is where i'm comming from on all this old apple 2 stuff .. i got
the only apple // bbs's i know of that are telnetable/www site accessable
off a T1. Who da thunk it?

was not even all that hard to do if you have a site and a // laying about

Now if i could just get my orig apple // + version of dos 3.3 applenet up by
pencheck?(spelling?)
used to run on 6 floppy drives and the // + ...we blew up power supplies
every other month..this was in
1983...

then i could tell anyone who asks..what do you run on your www site and i
can truthfully say..why the same
apple // + bbs pkg i've run since 1983! (sorta?) ...bet i'd win a lot of
bets

let me know if you know of any other sites out there who have done this
....i'd like to know..but been looking for a few yrs so i seem to be alone

whatever...upload some stuff on my site...

one other thing if anyone is interested... i have the abliity w/my software
to MAKE a language..ie..to add proterm
emulation lets say to my choice of menu options when people log into my ibm
major bbs area that i use for the bbs now (that in turn connects to my apple
// gs bbs pkgs from yesteryear)

i also have a program that works (with telix on a ms dos machine anyway)
that allows you to use proterm
on an IBM/ms dos machine...i have that program/and also script that does
it..an authors name.

if anyone wants that as a project again i don't think it would be that
hard....in that someone already has done
the hard work..codes that correspond roughly to proterm on the ibm (ie.
smily face instead of apple // mousetext symbol etc)

with such a mod we could release it as a freeware addon for wg/mbbs
systems...which would allow around 120,000 such www/bbs sites to have
proterm as an emulation choice of their bbs..and i'm sure it could also be
ported to wildcat

just some ideas...hope i did not bore too many of you

brad
sysop@lost-gonzo.com
www.lost-gonzo.com
telnet://lost-gonzo.com
mrbrad@ll.net


anyway my site is 180m/day or 90m/call free to users telneting in...;feel
free to pop on tw2002, l.o.r.d, 100 plus
door games, files, apple // area, fv/metal area, etc etc