Re: Apple /// software

[Egan Ford <datajerk@gmail.com>]

On Nov 4, 10:13 am, "Marc S. Ressl" <mre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 31, 5:43 pm, Egan Ford <dataj...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Oct 31, 1:38 pm, David Schmidt <schmi...@my-deja.com> wrote:
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> > > On 10/31/2011 3:01 PM, KP wrote:
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> > > > I recently acquired some Apple /// software, including the Apple ///
> > > > ProFILE driver disk, which is particularly useful because I have a
> > > > ProFILE.
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> > > > 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?
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> > > 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.
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> > > > When is someone going to write an Apple /// emulator for Windows?
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> > >http://www.mess.org/mess:drivers:apple3:apple3
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> > Have you or any other used it successfully?  How does it compare to
> > Sara?
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> > BTW, building MESS is a mess.  :-)
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> I probably shouldn't promise things that are completely in the air,
> but I'm planning to emulate the Apple /// in OpenEmulator after the
> Apple IIc :-).
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> Marc.-
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> pd: I haven't yet written actual code, but the outline is already
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I was hoping you'd say that.  To have a truly robust /// emulator
would be awesome.  It's a shame that the Sara source code is not
available in addition to MESS.

BTW, I got MESS working on my Mac, it was very easy to compile and
use.  However it is a bit cumbersome and it's lacking a lot of
documentation (e.g. how to swap floppies).