Re: Bootstrapping and Apple IIe from a UNIX host

[BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com>]

On May 14, 1:19 pm, schmidtd <schmi...@my-deja.com> wrote:
> On May 14, 11:14 am, shutterhead <shutterh...@gmail.com> wrote:> It seems to me that I should be able to create a bootable floppy by
> > sending the disk image from my UNIX machine over a serial link,
> > and have the Apple write the image out to the floppy drive.
>
> > Is this possible?
>
> > Even better, has someone already done it, because I don't currently
> > remember enough of any of this to write the program, even though it
> > shouldn't be that hard.
>
> Sure, have a look here:http://adtpro.sourceforge.net
> Specifically, the serial bootstrapping operations are here:http://adtpro.sourceforge.net/bootstrap.html

Also, if you want to bootstrap a binary program directly, or some
other form of input, you can script the interaction like you would
with the "expect" tool using the appple game server code:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=185513