New bitsy boot utility allows programs to quit to the 8bit launcher or return to the 16bit gsos finder. The resulting floppy disk is then useable by your apple ii. Create a new formatted apple ii disk image and write the specified program to autorun at boot time. Download apple iigs roms and games for pc,ios or android phone. A data disk when booted or started for those wondering what the word booted means, thats formatted with prodos, will load up with a screen that may say. On the apple iigs, the computer must boot from a prodos volume, but under gsos 6. The goals of this project are to make an easier to install and easier to use emulator, and to modernize the overall codebase and emulation platform. Someone has given me a macintosh plus, but there are no disks with it.
This site is dedicated to the preservation of the apple iigs computing platform. Download the gsos images and put them in the disks folder under. Hi, i recently purchased an apple iigs for dirtcheap from ebay. Roms apple ii apple ii applications planet emulation. The are several ways to transfer files from your apple iigs to your machine. Lost tribe, the 1992lawrence productionsdisk 2 of 3. Virtual apple 2 online disk archive arcade bootcamp.
Required file for gsos to boot and talk to character devices including the screen pro. Mount disk images over the internet on your apple iigs. Connect the usb flash drive or other volume that youre using for the bootable installer. The apple iie, also released in 1983, was the first apple ii computer to have 64kb of memory built in. When i turn the computer on, it reads in white letters on a blue screen check boot device and remains there. Iigs welcome to the apple iigs roms section of the rom database. The iigs can remote boot over localtalk from a mac running appleshare file server versions 2 or 3. The steps you need to take to use the software are. At over 3 million blocks, checking is an all night affair.
Installing the gsos operating system and figuring out disk images are particularly tricky tasks. Using downloaded software the ultimate apple ii resource. Fixboot is an init that installs a prodos boot block onto your builtin apple iigs ram disk when your system starts up. New bitsy boot utility allows programs to quit to the 8. Preserves gsos dormant state now multiple prodos games or programs can be booted and still return to gsos.
I have 2 apple iigss recently without a hard drive or boot disk and the. The microdriveturbo allows the iigs to skip trying to boot it by holding down the esc key on boot. Use the apple iigs control panel by pressing ctrlaltesc simultaneously on a real apple iigs you would press ctrlcommandesc. The iigs also supports booting from an appleshare server, via the appletalk protocol. To make such a disk bootable, all you need to do is copy the file prodos from a working prodos boot disk to the root directory of the disk you want to be able to boot from, assuming there is enough free space to copy that file. You may also use an apple iigs emulator to run apple ii games the apple iigs had a 95% compatibility with its 8bits predecessor. This guide provides some bootable gsos installation disks, a preprepared disk image and a few pointers for iigs novices. Current apple iigs related auctions listed by time left. It supports fullscreen, joysticks and audio through the sdl2 library across platforms.
There are a couple of resources online for how to do this, the two best ive found are here and here. It is hoped that one day this archive will feature a complete library of apple iigs applications, games, educational software, hardware references, drivers and publications. May, 2011 buying off of ebay should get you original disks. Most of them support hard drive images by creating a dummy smartport compatible storage device in a slot. The apple iigs stylized as iigs is the fifth and most powerful model in the apple ii series of personal computers produced by apple computer. Apple iigs gsos boot disks think simple, live simple. If you already use the dos version of adt, or an earlier version of adtpro, you can use it to transfer the virtual floppy containing adtpro that comes with this project adtpro2. A few weeks ago, i had to access a prodosformatted hard disk within gsos.
The gs in the name stands for graphics and sound, referring to its enhanced multimedia capabilities, especially its stateoftheart sound and music synthesis, which greatly surpassed previous models. Sdk file from your mac desktop on to this prodos floppy. I already have a microdrive with a cf card 128mb, but adding a scsi drive was both easy and seamless. A good source of iigs games in disk image format ie. The only gsos aka prodos 16 disk i had at the time only had the loader, not the finder or any other gsos apps. Fst 25k, gsos file system translator required file for gsos to talk to prodos volumes including the boot disk after the boot stub is loaded if booted over appleshare and no prodos disks are mounted, it may be theoretically possible to remove this file. How to make a dos boot disk for my apple iie i have an apple iie platinum that i got from a school.
Please scroll down for more sections and remember to share this page. Apple linuxunix windows win shells misc guis gui timeline gui sites. May 24, 2018 download bernie the rescue from the macintosh repository to your ppc mac with the 800k capable drive, fire up the emulator, and mount boot from the included hdd image. The only gsos aka prodos 16 disk i had at the time only had the loader, not the finder or any other.
Fantastics trivia game sports disk for apple ii plus, iie, iic, iigs, 1981. The mac 512k blog chronicles the macintosh 512k and my projects with it. Download bernie the rescue from the macintosh repository to your ppc mac with the 800k capable drive, fire up the emulator, and mount boot from the included hdd image. For use with apple iigs emulators such as sweet16, kegs, gsport, and any other apple iigs emaulator. Now, the rest of the action will take place on your apple iigs. The software library contains software disk images that can be downloaded and used to recreate the floppy disks using diskmaker 8 or any other utility which supports the compressed format. I recently dug around on the internet and found both xgs32, an apple iigs emulator, and apples own freely downloadble gsos system 6.
Apple iis continued to be able to boot the older dos even the apple iigs can boot the older dos floppies but as 3. Download the zip file containing the apple ii disk image to your pc. But what i am trying to do is just create a prodos bootdisk that will boot to just basic or the command line. We will test software, fix hardware, program it, hack it, and generally take the 512k macintosh to its limits. Make sure that it has at least 12gb of available storage and is formatted as mac os extended. Be sure to back up your boot drive before updating just in case. Download bernie the rescue from the macintosh repository to your ppc mac with the 800k capable drive, fire up the emulator, and mountboot from the included hdd image.
Lost tribe, the 1992lawrence productionsdisk 2 of 3crnon boot is a apple ii gs emulator game that you can download to your computer and enjoy it by yourself or with your friends. Jun 26, 2011 a look at my new apple iigs scsi hard drive. Mar 24, 2020 connect the usb flash drive or other volume that youre using for the bootable installer. Apple desktop 1986appledisk 2 of 2 73 ko apple extended 80column text applecolor card demo, the 19xxappledisk 1 of 2. Additionally install the software from the iigs disk apple ii setup disk 7. The mounted disk images behave as if they were normal but readonly disks on your iigs. Apple iigs roms, games and isos to download for emulation. Using an apple iigs hard disk hfs partition for mac. It works fine but by the time i found it and asked they had thrown away the old 5. Guis apple gsos for the apple iigs apple iigs system 6. Netdisk mount disk images over the internet on your apple iigs. Lost tribe, the 1992lawrence productionsdisk 2 of 3crnon boot file size 695. Now your disk image is ready to make its way to your iigs via good old fashioned sneaker net. You could use applewin or any other apple ii emulator to make a boot image in conjunction with the system utilities too.
Of course you wont be storing macintosh files in that volume, but apple ii files. If you just want to get your computer running, search for a mac or apple users group near you. I dont have a discs and there is no hard disc for the computer to boot to. All of the download files are in zip disk format for universality of downloading.
Making a prodos image is easy, even with a iigs emulator. How to create a bootable installer for macos apple support. The apple iigs styled as iigs, the fifth and most powerful of the apple ii family, is a 16bit. While earlier apple ii disk operating systems dos were based on dos 3. Apple jse is an apple e emulator written using only javascript and html5. We can find the download site and you can have the software.
Yeah, prodos file system is the format youre looking for, and the iigs can definitely boot off of a high density floppy disk. You can use modemserial line transfer, or some other less direct method. Be sure to press enter when done to save any changes. As a means for transferring the disk image file, it is encased into a zip file for storage on a2ol and transfer to your pc.
Yes, using an apple iigs is ok for disk images, its prodos all around. I just recently got a iigs and am trying to remember how to create a prodos boot disk. How to make a dos boot disk for my apple iie applefritter. We happen to have some iigs disks but they are packed up and stored away. Creating prodos bootdisk for apple iigs apple community. The method i use is to create shrinkit disk archives of the 5.
And if you would like the iigs to boot the microdriveturbo in slot 2 then you will also need to change the startup option to slot 2. Mount in iigs emulator, run the format command on the drive in gsos finder. The site is all about a browserbased emulator of the iigs, but when a game is selected to run, the website includes a download link. Some 2image archives dont include a bootable operating system, so you will require a boot disk to load first. Does the iigs finders verify command in the disk menu work properly for hfs partitions. Open terminal, which is in the utilities folder of your applications folder. Prodos only accepts a max size of 32 mb iirc, but that should be fine unless youre really thinking of pushing the limits of your iigs. Apple iigs abandonware games download old video games. Oct 04, 2018 yeah, prodos file system is the format youre looking for, and the iigs can definitely boot off of a high density floppy disk. If it is the first time you run the emulator, you will not have any disk image mounted in slot s7d1 default startup slot so kegs will jump into the monitor. In the menu for bernie, create a new 800k disk using your preferred format, i used disk copy 4. It seems to me that i should be able to download a system 6.
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