adtpro
Apple Disk Transfer ProDOS (ADTPro) (by ADTPro)
passport
a verification and copy program for 5.25-inch Apple II floppy disks (by a2-4am)
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2.8 | 6.0 | |
3 months ago | 13 days ago | |
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GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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adtpro
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Just picked this up at the local auction. $100, hope I did good. Never had a Apple II, time to do some research. Anyone here willing to help me with boot disks?
The other Apple II bootstrapping option is ADT Pro. Using audio (or serial) cable you can load a bootstrap program and write a bootable disk from that assuming you have a blank floppy available.
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First computer THIS old, $18 for the three you see. Do I need anything special to test it? My collection only goes back to 1999 so pre-VGA/USB cables are a weak spot.
But you're probably going to want to boot an OS so you can save things to disk, or boot some games that come on disk. For that you'll need some blank floppies and to bootstrap them from bare metal you can use ADTPro. You'll need to get or make an appropriate serial cable, the ADTPro site has details.
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Writing an Apple2 boot disk from a modern computer?
Sort of, kind of. There’s a tool that lets you use an Apple II and modern PC in collaboration to create a boot disk off from a file on a modern PC and then have it burned to a disk on the Apple side. It’s called ADTpro and it’s a pretty neat program. I used it for a few weeks until I got myself a better disk emulation system with the Floppy Emu.
- Just acquired an apple iic, seems to work fine...any pointers on how to get started with it?
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I give you DX PRO
I used 4AM Passport to copy the floppy disks and ADTPRO to receive to my iMac.
passport
Posts with mentions or reviews of passport.
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Breaking copy protection on a 1983 game for Apple 2
4am has cracked loads of apple ii games, and after doing several hundred manually, automated it as a set of python scripts, https://github.com/a2-4am/passport an article with interview here, https://paleotronic.com/2018/06/15/confessions-of-a-disk-cra...
These lab notebooks of the cracking process are shared for titles that could not automatically be cracked.
These are the only public records of reverse engineering these titles, though many did this in the 80’s the techniques and findings were never shared beyond the cracks themselves, and 4am is so practiced and proficient I think he definitely wins the title of the best apple ii cracker in history!
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I give you DX PRO
I used 4AM Passport to copy the floppy disks and ADTPRO to receive to my iMac.
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Floppy disc repair code?
Honestly, if you're having trouble with your floppy disks, it may be due to issues with the copy protection. If you're on an Apple II, I recommend https://github.com/a2-4am/passport/ -- it can crack almost all of the copy protection schemes used on that platform.
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What’s the most efficient way to clone a 5 1/4” floppy? Is ADTPro the only option to replicate bootable copies? Did they ever make a machine like where you’d just stick in the floppy you’d want to clone, and out pops copies onto blank floppies?
As someone else mentioned, most Apple II disks were copy protected. If you have unprotected bootable disks this method will produce exact copies. If the disks are original, then this will probably not work. You will need some way to de-protect them first. Passport by 4am might help you on that but your mileage may vary.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing adtpro and passport you can also consider the following projects:
greaseweazle - Tools for accessing a floppy drive at the raw flux level