Re: The ENTIRE Redbook is now available in zip archive

[Dennis Jenkins <dennis@usb.com>]

Sheldon Simms wrote:
> 
> Im Artikel <3AA640C9.D217CA57@usb.com> schrieb "Dennis Jenkins"
> <dennis@usb.com>:
> 
> > Sheldon Simms wrote:
> >>
> >> Likewise I would be very gratified if someone took the trouble to scan
> >> "Beneath Apple DOS". I have wanted to read that book for years too, but
> >> not enough to hunt down and pay for a copy of it. I did buy
> >> "Programming the 65816" by Lichty & Eyes, but I found that in a second
> >> hand bookstore for $5 and how could I pass that up?
> >
> > I have that book (plus a different ProDOS book).  Although I will NOT
> > place the book itself on the internet, I might document the ProDOS MLI
> > and possibly disk data structures, and post those (with proper
> > citations, under the fair use law thingy, just like a book report or
> > research paper).  But I have other things to do first.
> 
> Yes, well I don't actually expect to see it scanned in and posted on
> the net any time soon. But I'd download it if I did. Also, like with
> the red book, just about all of the info is already available. The one
> thing I've had trouble finding on the net is good information about
> how the Disk II works. The raw format of Apple floppies is well known
> and not that hard to find, but information about the controller card
> and the state machine for recognizing disk bytes is harder to come by.
> I found some docs a while back, but they're pretty sketchy.

I have yet to find (on the internet) an exact spec for the filesystem
layout and the exact spec for the MLI.  Between the two ProDOS books
that I have, I have both and can produce both in HTML at some point in
the future.


> 
> As for the copyright on the book - I wonder if anyone has contacted the
> authors and asked them about releasing it into the public domain or at
> least allowing the book to made available in some form on the internet.
> I kind of doubt there'll ever be another printing but the information
> is still interesting.
> 
> -Sheldon

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