Re: Bringing a IIgs to life without any boot disks

["Polymorph" <polymorph69@hotmail.com>]

David Flory wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I recently bought my first Apple; a nice ROM3 IIgs.  It works perfectly
> with an ancient copy of Appleworks, but I have no system disks.
>
> I have a couple questions that I hope someone can help me with:
>
> 1.)  Is there any way to get the IIgs to load Prodos and disk images
> from a PC using just the serial port, and ROM basic/assembler?  (I've
> never heard of this but I thought it would be worth asking.)
>
> 2.)  I'd be interesting in adding an old Mac to my collection if I can
> use it directly write bootable 800KB images for the IIgs.  Can anyone
> tell me what kind of Mac I need?
> What's the latest Mac model/System ver. that can write Apple IIgs images?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave

Hi Dave,

Here are my answers:

Question 1 - "yes this is possible". You use ADTPro. See the following
page:
http://adtpro.sourceforge.net/bootstrap.html

Question 2 is outside of my experience (I've never owned *any* Mac),
but I believe from what I've read that it is possible to create ProDOS
disks on an older Mac, however you may experience some
incompatibilities with the drives - ie. disks written on the Mac may
not be readable on the IIgs and/or vice versa. Someone more familiar
should probably clarify this.

cheers,
-p