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Re: ADTPro 1.1.6 released



Ivan X wrote:
>> surely I'm the only person on the planet who
>> bootstraps these things more than once in a lifetime.
> 
> You'll be delighted to know, if you don't already, that there was a
session
> at KansasFest 2010 demonstrating, in part, how to do exactly this.
> 
> It is a pretty awesome feature -- the cassette interface especially since
> it
> enables booting up with no additional hardware at all. I thought about
> doing
> it when I wanted to fire up the dormant II+ in my office, when I
remembered
> that I could get my floppies, which were only six blocks away at my home.
> Therefore, of course, I did neither.
> 
> 
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I actually wrote a bootloader which is connected with the system I use to
pack my games.  It's actually possible on a ][+ or //e to load a compressed
image of ProDOS, then a compressed image of a system file, with a little
stub activated by typing nothing else but LOAD.

-uso.