{"id":174,"date":"2011-06-18T10:48:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T14:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marstella.net\/?p=174"},"modified":"2011-06-18T10:48:49","modified_gmt":"2011-06-18T14:48:49","slug":"apple-c-with-no-disks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marstella.net\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"Apple \/\/c with no disks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Accidentally purchased an Apple \/\/c last week on eBay. I never expected to get one for less than $20, but figured I&#8217;d take the chance&#8230; Due to incorrect title, the thing never got another bid, so now it&#8217;s mine!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it came with a disk containing a couple of games, but in very poor condition. The \/\/c itself is yellowed (of course) but otherwise seems pretty good. Something I hadn&#8217;t noticed was the UK keyboard instead of US. No big deal. Running print peek(64447) reported 255, so it&#8217;s the original ROM version.<\/p>\n<p>Since I had no disks, I was wondering how to create one from a PC when I found the <a title=\"ADTPro\" href=\"http:\/\/adtpro.sourceforge.net\" target=\"_blank\">ADTPro<\/a> project on sourceforge. Turns out that since Apple II series was designed for potential cassette-based loading, there is a way to load the O\/S through the serial port and then write out to disk. Fortunately, I&#8217;ve scrounged several 5-1\/4&#8243; disks from around my old stash, so now the only problem is that I&#8217;m getting an error every time I try to transfer the O\/S. I just haven&#8217;t found the right speed, or my cable isn&#8217;t sufficiently shielded. But it does work. I get the ProDOS screen after transferring, although it craps out depending on what you try to do (due to the transfer error). Still, I&#8217;m on the way.<\/p>\n<p>Pics later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accidentally purchased an Apple \/\/c last week on eBay. I never expected to get one for less than $20, but figured I&#8217;d take the chance&#8230; Due to incorrect title, the thing never got another bid, so now it&#8217;s mine! Anyway, it came with a disk containing a couple of games, but in very poor condition. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marstella.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marstella.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marstella.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marstella.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marstella.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marstella.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marstella.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marstella.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marstella.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}