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Re: Recommended way to format disk from assembly?



On 1/3/2012 4:18 PM, Egan Ford wrote:
> I am trying to create a dumb-down one-way version of ADT [...]

Funny, that's how Rich Williamson's SENDDISK (forerunner of ADT) started out. Asimov has that in /pub/apple_II/utility/senddisk.zip. The source is pretty short - Rich says he wrote it in the monitor. How very Woz-esque of him. His code is II to

Both the booting disk and the non-booting
disk when ripped by ADT have the same md5sums (I also did a bit for
bit check).

But what does the disk look like while it's in the //e? Take a look with a sector editor. Is your one-way code taking into account that sectors come down the wire in reverse order (from F down to 0) from a typical ADT server?

What if you start with a normally formatted disk, skip your RWTS format, and send the disk? Would that boot?

Have you started with the INIT code from the Beneath Apple DOS book (page A-12)?