Re: Virtual serial drive

[Kevin <kevin@hackaday.com>]

On Sunday, September 2, 2012 2:42:15 PM UTC-5, Kevin wrote:
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> > > How can i create a serial drive for apple II, i found Apple2VirtualDrive at this link  ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/utility/, but I don't know how to do.
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> > See if you can contact Gary Becker, he had that serial drive setup working for his apple FPGA project.
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> I poked around with it... not with much luck, but here is what I have
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> I tried using the shk file with adt, and when I rebooted I got an apple commnder notice and it doesnt boot. So I went in with cider press and snagged the serial.drive bin file and plopped it on a fresh prodos disk image.
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> Started the host software from a windows command line telling it what com port and hard disk image I wanted to use
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> Rebooted, brun serial.drive, typed bye to exit applesoft, hit tab to switch volumes and my //C barfs, I dont know if this is cause something is wrong, or if its just the fact that this thing is hard wired to 19200bps and my rom 255 C is just sending out junk

I found the authors page

http://apple2.boldt.ca/?page=terserialdrive

seems to work with a few GS's (bummer)