Re: Any way to run .DSK images -directly- on Apple // ?

[ol.sc@web.de (Oliver Schmidt)]

Hi Nick,

>> I'm considering to implement a program that would allow to "run" .dsk
>> images on an Apple2 [...]

>Cool idea.

:-)

>Just a couple of points. The (sadly half-complete) Apple II Game
>Server does this ... detects RWTS and replaces it with serial
>routines. It works for a number of whole-disk DOS 3.3 RWTS-using
>games, but a larger number didn't work for reasons as yet unexplored.

Thanks for adjusting my expectations.

>Also, the //c will need to be special-cased to turn off interrupts.
>E.g. the firmware implements a keyboard buffer which uses interrupts
>and stores keys in aux RAM.

To be honest I was totally unaware of this. Hopefully there aren't
many of those...

Regards,
Oliver