Apple writer was originally distributed in this fashion, as were other less wellknown programs such as tax planner, plan 80, script ii for pascal, and mba a spreadsheet. All i get is a waiting for host message on the iie card and the adtpro software on the new mac telling me it is connected. Using the mac lc apple iie card with adtpro adtpro. Years ago a family member used an apple iie which is still functional including 5. I found disk images for it online, but i have no clue how to get them onto a disk that the apple iii can read. Apple disk transfer prodos adtpro transfers classic 8bit apple disk images over a serial, ethernet or audio link to a more modern computer. Here are 6 ways to move files tofrom an apple ii, tofrom a newer pcmac buy a cheap older mac. Uthernet ii has a builtin tcpip stack but still requires software support to do useful things. Create a project open source software business software top downloaded projects. Please restrict submissions only the apple ii computers plus, iie, iigs, iic. Transferring files seems to come up regularly on all forums.
You will need a serial nullmodem cable connected between the lcs modem port and your host computer. There is an link to an decent video on using adtpro made by the author of adtpro that i suggest you take a look at. The steps you need to take to use the software are. Start the adtpro server from your host computers command line or by clicking on the startup program for your host operating system. The mac 512k blog chronicles the macintosh 512k and my projects with it. Again, initiate the transfer and enter the parameters. Contact an infamous apple ii software archivist 4am in america for discussion on my workflow. I again vote for adtpro, the best apple ii software nearly ever made. The 68040 versions of the macintosh lc 5xx and performa 5xx series do not recognize the apple iie card when there is a communication card occupying the communication slot. If you have found this page directly from an internet search as opposed to a link from my disk imaging introduction page you have most likely missed some important information.
If you already have a way to transfer virtual disk images to your apple, you can use that to transfer the latest disk image containing adtpro that comes with this project adtpro2. Once the adtpro client is loaded, you can press f and format a floppy. Apple 2 products surplus games, educational programs, word processing, publishing, cables, accessories, etc. Shortly after buying my apple iie platnium a few months ago, i went a little crazy buying dsdd 5. Apple disk transfer prodos adtpro transfers physical disks and disk images. Adtpro apple ii serial bootstrapping with speediboot youtube. Making an apple ii boot disk and getting other apple ii software from disk images. Sending disk images to the apple ii with adtpro appletothecore. Search through this selection of parts to find accessories for your vintage apple computer.
I blamed the usb serial adapter and grabbed a dell precision laptop with 32bit windows xp on. Apple ii roms software free download apple ii roms. The apple iie was the first apple computer with a custom asic chip, which reduced much of the old discrete icbased circuitry to a single chip. The following table lists the released versions of the setup software for the apple iie card that ive managed to verify. Adtpros client code borrowed heavily from the original apple disk transfer adt base code from version 1. Making an apple ii boot disk and getting other apple ii. Data will flowand your apple iie will load the adtpro client. Agat was a soviet personal computer based on apple ii architecture. If you still need to connect your host and apple ii computers through their. Magic window one of the most popular apple ii word processors by artsci. Adtpro can work with a macintosh lc computer equipped with the apple iie card apple computer part number 8200444a.
Agat emulator provides support for all base blocks of original hardware as well as emulation of apple ii, apple ii plus and compatible systems. Contiki, ip65 and adtpro have been updated by oliver schmidt to provide a compatible driver and ewen wannop has developed a new driver for marinetti stack for gsos. Further, you must turn 32 bit addressing off via the memory control panel, like so. Adtpro client usually finds the serial port, the switches look good on the super serial card, why isnt the apple receiving anything. I connected the 25 to 9 pin serial cable to the apple iie, and then connected that to my usb serial adapter on the mac pro. This subreddit is discussion and tech support of apple ii hardware, software, and emulators. If you dont have software for your apple yet, more bootstrapping scenarios and. Anyone here use adtpro to create disks or to create disk images. Apple was created in 1976 in the garage of one of the founding members. Finally, apple ii and iigs warez on your ipad by datajerk. Unpack the adtpro distribution file using your operating systems native facilities. If you dont have the adtpro client software on your apple ii yet, take a look at the serial or audio bootstrapping section to. I had the cable, working serial port, and adtpro server software ready.
Adtpro using the mac lc apple iie card with adtpro. I installed adtpro along with the driver for the usb adapter and was good to go. If you need some info on serial connections, the adtpro website has pictures and such. Testing an apple iie, with super serial card, serial cable and adtpro, to transfer files to floppy disk. Before transferring files to an apple ii from your pc, mac, or smartphone. It can even get your apple running if you dont have any disks at all.
Applications, utilities and general purpose software for the apple ii. Some apple ii emulators have the ability to virtualize a serial port over ip. The serial vsdrive driver will automatically search for compatible hardware and use it. Setup virtual ethernet configurationsetup program, required to set. I can not for the life of me get it working on the iie card. After the initial program load, the disk will be formatted. Apple is one of the largest computer, tablet, and smartphone manufacturers in the world.
Since i already installed the super serial card, all i have to do is make the connection between the apple iie and my mac pro. Part of the free open source adtpro software package. The apple doesnt have the rich set of firmware the way the apple ii does. If you have a good serial cable, this speed will work reliably. I have an apple iie european pal and i bought a ssc card just to run adtpro to load few images to floppies. This video shows you how to connect your apple ii to a pc using a serial cable and how to bootstrap the apple ii using adtpro. The internet archive software library is a large collection of viewable and executable software titles, ranging from commercially released products to public domain and hobbyist programs. Apple ii roms, free apple ii roms software downloads. Starting with the discontinuation of the apple iie in late 1993, it became increasingly difficult to find paper magazines about the apple ii, and thus information about available new software and hardware for the apple ii. Apple also established the apple software bank and used it for special programs through 1980. A text editor to edit the list of images in activegs. The resulting floppy disk is then bootableuseable by your apple ii.
This video should explain everything you need to do in order to build your own software. If you have an apple ii with less than 64k of memory, you wont be able to use adtpro at all. An apple iie i have many retro computers and i was thinking that since the apple ii line of computers especially the iie have pretty speedy serial ports that it should be somewhat simple to use an arduino to send data tofrom the apple my issue is that all of my everyday computers are usb based with no rs232 serial. Connecting an apple and your host computer through serial ports can take. Configure adtpro which included tracking down the one cable that i needed but didnt have to connect the apple ii to my macbook. Receiving disk images hitting the r key from the main menu lets you enter the name of the disk image you want to copy from the host to a disk on your apple. When in doubt leave this set to the default of 115200. Nothing i tried could get the adtpro client software running on a real apple iie to talk to the macbook. Here is my story, i have several old floppies from 80ties 5. Has anyone used an arduino to transfer software to an. The goal here is to get the adtpro client down to the apple so that you can easily transfer all the rest of the great apple ii software that is available on the. He gives some very good feedback regarding the differences between the boards, and how the microdriveturbo performs under real world conditions. This video should explain everything you need to do in order to build your own software library for free, or at a very low cost. We will test software, fix hardware, program it, hack it, and generally take the 512k macintosh to its limits.
For reference the apple super serial card came out in 1981 and my macbook is the early 2011 model. Its a real apple ii plus motherboard in the case of a syscomii apple clone. Using downloaded software the ultimate apple ii resource. You can also leave that prompt blank, and hitting the return key will bring up a listing of files in the current working directory, allowing you to simply pick one by highlighting its. Adtpro virtual drive serialprodos once youve established your serial connection between your apple ii and the adtpro host server, boot or otherwise access the vdrivev. I finally have all the pieces to push data to my apple iie.
Its been months since i planned to look into adding bluetooth support in david schmidts fabulous adtpro software. That means that the serial port setup and communications software has to be. Walkthrough of booting an apple ii computer over the serial port. If you dont use adt or adtpro, or dont have any software for your apple yet, more. If you cant get 115200 to work reliably, something in your cabling or potentially your usb driver is wrong. Also i picked up an apple iii but have no software for it. Whatever directory the host software starts in will be the current working directory. If youre new to this whole 8bit or retrocomputing revival that is going on around us, or if youve just so happened upon your old apple iie commonly stylized as apple e while cleaning out your mothers attic, then you might have found yourself in an interesting situation that.
Older macs that have at least 3 or more digits, whether it be an lc iii, a 475, a 550, 640, up to the 4 digit series of mac computers and i. With a usbserial adapter and an admittedly oddball but not too hard to make or buy serial cable you can use adtpro to transfer software to a iic, which is under most circumstances a bettermore reliable option than cassette audio my favorite apple computer is my bizarre mongrel ii plus. If you find yourself in need of serial or usb cables to connect to your apple ii. Developing lisp for the apple iie was surprisingly easy for these guys they simply wrote a lisp interpreter in c and used a. My experience with adtpro was that i absolutely could not get it to work to transfer the apple adtpro client through serial, i had to use the audio transfer to get adtpro to my e. On the other end i m using an intel pentium pc with windows 10 64bits and one serial port, all java software manualy installed 64bits and manual file mooving required has been done serial drivers. Based on the seminal adt, adtpro can transfer any prodos or sosvisible volume.
Bootstrap the client software on your apple ii via serial or cassette ports. Contribute to adtproadtpro development by creating an account on github. This change resulted in reducing the cost and size of the motherboard. How to obtain free software for your apple ii using adtpro. Apple disk transfer prodos adtpro transfers physical disks and disk images between apple iiera computers and the modern world. First release on github, includes some code reorganization osx server worked around the apple nanny state the osx application icon now works again on osx 10. I know my cabling, mini din8, usb adapters etc are all working as i have had adtpro working on my iic and iigs. The apple iie was released in january 1983, the successor to the apple ii plus.
Download the zip file containing the apple ii disk image to your pc. Once the transfer is complete, your apple iie will load prodos and give you a prompt up top. The adtpro server can host two virtual hard drives to a connected apple ii or machine. Using the jsmess emulator, users can boot up an emulation of the given title and use it in their browser. Ive been using adtpro for years to transfer disk images for use in my apple iie using the apple ii super serial card.