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Another solution for serving a disk image over RS-232



I just posted my project of the last week: a program to serve prodos
disk images from a Windows PC over an RS-232 serial port.

The only possible difference between this software and other similar
solutions is that it comes with a patched version of Prodos 8 2.0.3 that
allows you to boot your Apple IIe/IIc with super serial card or clone
over the serial connection.

The link is: http://wsxyz.net/sdisk.html

Answers to a few possible questions that might come up:

Q. Why? ADTPro does this already.
A. Does ADTPro allow you run with no disk drives at all and boot Prodos over
  the serial link? If so, then the answer, is "because it was fun". If not,
  the the answer is "now you can do that, and also it was fun".

Q. Why Windows PC? I have a Mac.
A. Because I don't have a RS-232 adapter for my Mac, but my old Windows
  laptop has one. It is probably relatively trivial to adapt the server
  program to run on a Mac if someone wants to do it.

Q. Why Apple IIe/IIc above?
A. Because I used 65c02 opcodes. This also could be corrected relatively
  easily, but by the time I decided to make everything public, rather than
  purely for my own private use, I didn't want to go back and do it.

Q. Can you please add <feature request here>
A. Sorry, no. All the source code is included and I release it all to the
  public domain. Someone else can make that change if they want to.