Re: Hard Programming

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Kotazzu writes ...
> 
> Well, I now have the whole HyperC, related materials, and other stuff
> found on the Ground... I hafta make big thanks to all of you, it's
> wonderful to see that many people still keep living the // series.
> 
> Now the only thing I have to do is transfer files. I have both a //c,
> very first version, and a //e not enhanced with 80col-128kb card, super
> serial, duodisk. What of these systems is better for tranferring and
> what program I have to write on my machine?
 ....

     If you have a telecom program which you can run on one of your Apple II's,
you can use standard NULL modem to transfer .shk files from PC or Mac to the
Apple II. For information about NULL modem transfers see ...

http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/Csa2T1TCOM.html#004 .

     One of the first files you transfer should be ShrinkIt. On the Apple II,
you can use ShrinkIt to unshrink .shk and .sdk files. You can get ShrinkIt from
A2MG or Ground ...

http://members.aol.com/A2MG/dl.html
ftp://ground.ecn.uiowa.edu/2/apple2/useful.stuff/

For information about getting and using ShrinkIt see ...

http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/Csa2FLUTILS.html .

     For NULL modem transfers, the choice of which computer to use may be
limited. Since the IIe is not enhanced, you may have to use the //c.


     If you do not already have an Apple II telecom program, you can use a
package called "ADT" to do transfers from a PC to your Apple II. ADT lets you
transfer disk image files and convert them to diskette on the Apple II. There
is a good collection of .dsk disk image files (including telecom programs) on
Ground at ftp://ground.ecn.uiowa.edu/apple2/useful.stuff/Disks/ .

     You can find ADT v1.22 on ACN Florida or ACN Tarnover (when it's back
on-line) or USA2WUG ....

ftp://24.96.48.134:6502/Cabi_Archives/Applications/Telcom/
ftp://tarnover.dyndns.org/cabi/Applications/Telcom/
http://www.grin.net/~cturley/USA2WUG/Utilities/

For information about using ADT see
http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/Csa2T1TCOM.html#003 .


     The //c or the IIe with Super Serial Card should work fine with ADT.




> Other. There are assembler compilers available as freeware on the net?

     You can find the 8-bit Merlin on one of the ACN sites mentioned above in
the Programmers' Archive area in the Languages.Programming/ folder.




> Me and a friend of mine (that I have lately converted to the Apple//
> family) want to program a GUI for the 8bit systems... I know GEOS is
> alive, but... it's a challenge... so we'd need the memory mapping and
> hardware/rom specifications for the //c and //e. Where, if available, on
> the WEB?
 ....

     You can get some harware information about these computers at
http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/A2FAQs5MAINHALL.html .



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