Re: Booting An Apple IIGS From Linux

[david@uow.edu.au (David Wilson)]

Jalapeno <jalapeno1@mac.com> writes:

>In article <3CCC1057.8010604@coli.uni-sb.de>,
> Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@coli.uni-sb.de> wrote:

>> David Empson wrote:
>> 
>> > Apple never published a listing of any of the other items you listed,
>> > except for extracts, or useful parts such as sample GS/OS device
>> > drivers.
>> 
>> Well, then it's time to hit the disassembly line, I guess. ;-)
>> 
>> I've analyzed a couple of things with Ilfak Gulfanov (sp?)'s IDA already
>> and it is a fine program. Unfortunately the freeware version has no 6502
>> or 65816 support, and the commercial version is pretty expensive.
>> 

>looks good, but no direct WDC65c816 support in the commercial version 
>either.

>http://www.datarescue.com/idabase/idaproc.htm

They do have an SDK to roll your own processor support.
http://www.datarescue.com/idabase/idaplugin.htm

I wrote my own 65c02/65816 disassembler and have used it quite successfully
on ProDOS and Apple II card firmware. I have not tried doing the //GS ROMs
yet.
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David Wilson  School of IT & CS, Uni of Wollongong, Australia