Re: Apple /// software

[Steve Nickolas <lyricalnanoha@usotsuki.hoshinet.org>]

On Mon, 31 Oct 2011, Egan Ford wrote:

> On Oct 31, 1:38 pm, David Schmidt <schmi...@my-deja.com> wrote:
> > On 10/31/2011 3:01 PM, KP wrote:
> >
> > > I recently acquired some Apple /// software, including the Apple ///
> > > ProFILE driver disk, which is particularly useful because I have a
> > > ProFILE.
> >
> > > Is it possible to read these (presumably SOS-formatted) Apple ///
> > > floppies on my Apple II machines?  Can I export them with an Apple II
> > > into disk images using ADTPro?
> >
> > Yes.  The underlying filesystem looks just like ProDOS.  You can fool
> > with the images using CiderPress or however you normally treat Apple II
> > images.  ADTPro can run either on your Apple II or /// so you don't
> > really need to bypass it if you don't want to.
> >
> > > When is someone going to write an Apple /// emulator for Windows?
> >
> > http://www.mess.org/mess:drivers:apple3:apple3
>
> Have you or any other used it successfully?  How does it compare to
> Sara?
>
> BTW, building MESS is a mess.  :-)

In some respects it works better than Sara, in some respects worse.  As I 
understand, "Star Emulator" - I have to reacquire this disk image because 
it isn't on my current computer nor any of my working ones, it's on one I 
unsuccessfully transplanted and need to get working again - mostly works 
on MESS but when I tried it on Sara - had to do it through emulation as I 
don't own a Mac - it crashed, but it loaded the font, which it didn't do 
on MESS.

-uso.