Thanks much, very clear tutorial and now my Apple IIc is back to life.

Best explanation of a poorly documented program. Thank you.

I used a paper hole punch when I was a kid and it worked fine. Just line it up with another disk and go half way in. :-)

@divarin1

5 жыл бұрын

I do this all the time for C64 disks. I use a regular hole punch and I stack another floppy on top so I can use the notch of the 2nd disk as a template to show me where to punch the hole in the first.

I just got an Apple IIc and a friend suggested I watch this video to get software for it. Glad I did. Thanks for the tips! I've ordered the cables and installed the software. Looking forward to getting a nice little software library going for my new toy...

@MixmaFritz

6 жыл бұрын

Which cable exactly i need to transfer games with ADTpro ? Null Modem Cable ? Serial cable ? where you find yours ?

Brings back memories of the Apple IIe my kindergarten classroom had in 1995/1996. I remember one kid punching random keys on it and laughing at it for some reason. Never could figure out why.

I just went through this same process, also on an Apple //c as luck would have it. One thing I would recommend is setting aside the first floppy to write a bootable ADTPro disk image, so from then on you can boot it from floppy and don't have to go through the bootstrapping procedure every single time you reboot. The disk image will already be there when you unpack the ADTPro archive.

I'm glad you made this video. You answered a lot of questions that I had.

Thank you for the excellent tutorial! I was finally able to make the disks I needed for my IIGS Vulcan drive!

Great Tutorial the best one I have seen for Apple II Bootstraping!

I used to do this same thing with single-sided discs and found a hand held paper punch that worked well. The notch was a half-circle, but it still worked. There used to be a company that made a square punch for this exact purpose, but it was SO expensive, you would be better off just buying the double-sided discs in the first place. I have to get my IIC out of the closet and try this. Haven't powered it up in YEARS!

Very informative. I just downloaded ADTPRO and didn't even think about the null modem being out of the norm. Saved me a little frustration before I started.

If you can find that elusive IIc Imagewriter cable, grab it! I lucked out and my IIc came with a printer and cable, it loads ADTPro much quicker then a standard serial cable. Something tells me its wired for hardware handshaking. My biggest problem with ADTPro is that all my 5.25" floppies have gone bad! I did manage to use it to retrieve some 3rd grade book reports in Bank Street Writer Plus though.

BBISHOPPCM's World Once I click "OK" to start the Speediboot Bootstrapping Process, nothing happens. Any idea how I can troubleshoot that?

I believe there is a sd card reader designed for the apple II now. That might be a good options to make you're apple II experience a little better. I have the SD2IEC for my Commodores and boy what a big difference it makes.

Also, do these apple II's turn up at recycling yards? Id love to find one at mine, might just give in and buy one though!

Notching out the other side was quite commonplace in the old days. Most people would use a single hole punch, but that made an unsightly round-ish hole. I actually have a tool made specifically for this purpose that was sold years ago. If anyone remembers the "Programmer's Purity Test" on the rec.humor.funny newsgroup, you may recall question 0353, which was "Have you ever made a "flippy" disk?"

Back in the day, I used to use an old hand held hole punch to make the floppies dual sided for the apple. Great video, I need to pick up an old IIc or IIgs and try to find one of the old color monitors.. :) Great video!

my Athlon II X4 PC still has a serial port on the motherboard so it's useful for ADTPro. I have a Apple IIe Platinum.

You can press Control-OpenApple-Reset to reboot. You don't have to power down.

@damarioatkins4442

7 жыл бұрын

unabonger777 ó BH sjsm$ss . BYU lio

@bbishoppcm

7 жыл бұрын

Doesn't completely reset the machine though

@emmettcarr2988

5 жыл бұрын

To complete reset one of these you flip the power switch and wait 15 seconds, the 15 seconds will clear the screen of gibberish.

Is there any way to essentially use this as a virtual floppy drive so that I can run programs without putting them on a disk first? Also, where are you getting the files from? All I've found so far is the internet archive.

Very, very helpful video! Thank you!

Where can I get a Lemonade Stand diskette? could not find it on E-bay...

what do u think an apple IIc is worth + screen keyboard external disc drive joystick 2 manuals printer Bic of paper and lots of discs and games thanks mike from ohio

I love the keyboard typing sounds that the Apple II has. Also, will the Apple II run Dark Castle?

UR Pumpin out vids faster than i can watch them!! Thats a good thing :)

The IIGS used 3 1/2 inch floppies. Is it possible to hook up a IIGS drive to a regular II or is the connection different? I know the trick to make a 1.44meg disk into a 720k disk, and 3 1/2 inch floppies are more readily available.

@bbishoppcm

9 жыл бұрын

The connector is the same with the IIe, but the original II used a card edge connector, unless the interface was upgraded. Inter-compatibility of Apple II drives is a bit more complicated than one might imagine. This website should explain it. In short, the II will need a "Liron" controller card. www.vintagemacworld.com/drives.html

So the 1600 block images need to be written on a high density disk, was that the problem?

Thank you! That is useful.

I think I finally figured out what state your from! It's Massachusetts. In some of your other videos you make subtle hints about this but never confirm it. In fact when ever you talk about your computers you acquire from your school district you make it your business to tell us not to ask or even talk about it. It's not a big deal, but for me it affects how I relate to you as a computer guy. Your accent isn't southern or northern, but something else. I'm glad I finally know what part of the country your from so I can at least relate to some of things you talk about, like when you say "in this part of the country you don't see these kinds of Honda's." Which part? In some parts of the country a car from the 1960's can easily be found driving around because the whether is dry and it never rains! People forget how curious some of are and I am glad you atleast allow us to post comments. Thanks, Derek

@bbishoppcm

9 жыл бұрын

Actually, close; but no, not Massachusetts. My accent is a combination of Pennsylvanian and Rhode-Islandian (where my parents hail from). I actually live in NH.

Hi ! I love your Apple II videos. Can you make A complete idiots guide (click by click) to connecting a Modern mac to Apple IIc by using ADTpro for someone who has never done this? Then how to format IBM 5/25 disks. And then how to transfer .dsk files from the mac to the Apple II?

Great job, Sir.......I will try it. Thanks v much.

im having problems i made my own cable but i double checked cable three times and all looks good but it still wont work using window7 and adtpro but when it sends it to the apple2c it dosent do anything could you help

@diskmandiskman6954

5 жыл бұрын

Same here. ADTPro is broken. It no longer works.

Oh wow retrofloppy!!! I need 3.5 dsdd disks for my emax!!! Perhaps they have them???

I have a ][ GS with a built in hard drive. Could you just save the games you loved to the hard drive somehow ?

@bbishoppcm

7 жыл бұрын

These never shipped with built-in hard drives... is this one of the flash-based units they sell for these now?

@georgesenda1952

7 жыл бұрын

No, I think this one or my other ][Gs has a hard drive built in. I will have to look at the one that is here. the other one is in my girlfriend's storage When I bought it on Ebay it had a hard drive already in and a Transwarp card too. My drives, the GS are all sitting on top of my ][e so its a bit of work to get everything off with 5 drives on there in a small space in front of my Bravia.

@bbishoppcm

7 жыл бұрын

If you're serious, that drive is worth a fortune if it still works. There were some aftermarket internal drives available for the GS, but they were so incredibly expensive, they weren't popular and are impossible to find today.

It worked the last time I turned it on. GS OS is what boots the GS.

I had software that brought up a desktop like Macs did and it used the mouse. I can't recall the name, but it was amazingly nice graphics back then :)

@jussapitka6041

6 жыл бұрын

Gabriel Androczky If it was on tge IIGs it was GSOS

What model is that sony vaio? It looks nice.

@kbhasi

9 жыл бұрын

It's a Sony Vaio PCG-6D1L Laptop Computer

Nice tut. The commands for your Bomber game weren't working because for those text adventure games you need to have the CAPS on for them!

Dude! Thanks!

Update: Serial adapter is under $4 on ebay free shipping. Most older apple prices are going down (as of July '17) due to just too many on ebay.

Hello,I've been getting get_java_var: invalid file descriptor error for sometime and I'm lost to what I need to do to fix this.I'm using an Apple //e.

@bbishoppcm

5 жыл бұрын

What OS are you running on your host computer? This only works on older Windows 7 32-bit or pre-64 bit versions of MacOS.

@dagglock7615

5 жыл бұрын

Windows Vista. I even bought a new Null modem cable. It's able to connect but that's it.

Why not use ADT Pro to create an ADT system disk? Then you could eliminate the bootstrap transfer every time you use it.

this really works. found use for an old dell 1.80ghz win xp box got the serial cable and started copying over my images. screw the emulator playing this stuff on the real hardware is so much better. thanx for the tutorial... to bad this stuff does not work on a win 98 box.. oh well. but works great on XP.

Please do some Macintosh vids.I so miss them even though i can watch them again

It would have been nice if you'd shown how to do this on a Mac or Macbook. I don't have a working pc.

Disk knotching. Get a second floppy. Reverse it. Place it on the back of the floppy you want to knotch. Now you know exactly where that knotch is meant to go.

@bbishoppcm

3 жыл бұрын

They used to make disk punches, but I never thought to buy one until now!

@SimbaSeven.

3 жыл бұрын

@@bbishoppcm I just use a bad floppy as a template and use a hole punch. Works great and have been using it for years.

As soon as I can come across a IIgs or IIe, I want to do this...none available for sale in my area and I cringe at the thought of ebay prices! Very great video! Saved for future reference!

@bbishoppcm

9 жыл бұрын

Jacob Zelmore Keep your eyes open; I managed to find a complete IIc for just $50 on Craigslist. I had to drive two hours to get it, but I got it!

@jacobzelmore6080

9 жыл бұрын

I certainly will. I had a IIc growing and unfortunately during a movie it got destroyed. It was my father's from college. He's since passed on but that disk drive sound will always make me think of him and I playing games!

@TheAverageGamerToday

7 жыл бұрын

i wish you good luck my friend :^)

i knows this is old but use a paper hole punch makes a perfect notch

The GS boots from the hard drive.

@bbishoppcm

7 жыл бұрын

Please make a video of this machine, as it is truly a rare piece, and would be appreciated by any Apple II enthusiast. I'd also be interested in knowing what drive you have in there, as there were a few third-party units available.

Thank you , this helped a lot , I am subbed on your LGR chanel and another , just subbed here too :) QC

How about "Space Invaders" :-)

Great video. If you have an older Apple II with cassette port, you don't even need ADTpro, Just connect the line out on your computer with cassette port on the Apple II. You can load a lot of software from asciiexpress.net/diskserver/ (whole disks) or asciiexpress.net/gameserver/ for single games. The transfer speed is surprisingly not much slower than the ADTpro serial connection. Unfortunately it won't work with the Apple IIc.

It was my first apple, 1986!

does this still work here in 2018?

@marka.200

5 жыл бұрын

I was wondering the same thing. The sites he talks about are still there, I just ordered the cables and some diskettes from the retrofloppy people. I am going to try it out when everything arrives, hopefully it still works.

@diskmandiskman6954

5 жыл бұрын

@@marka.200 Good luck. I have been fighting a stock Win 7/64 bit box with current Java and the latest ADTPro. The Apple //c doesn't receive anything. The connection is good as I tested it with terminal programs from Win to ZTerm on the //c. ADTPro no longer works. Maybe build an XP box and have fun tracking down old versions of JAVA. lol. I gave up. Same yourself the hassle. It no longer works.

I remember as a kid using a hole punch to notch the disks... would much prefer to find an actual notching tool when one pops up on ebay hehe. Great video, looking forward to building my collection of games and software.

@georgesenda1952

7 жыл бұрын

Back 33 years ago companies sold notching tools and Apple user group members sold them at the meetings. I lost my storage in 2001, and I lost thousands of apple 2 items including my Nibble Notcher. :(

"Not as good as candy crush." I'd rather play a 34 year old text adventure game.

It's called Tyvek! ;3

Thank you! You reminded me how all this crap works! :-)

I'm surprised Apple's lawyer army hasn't found this video and brought down their terrible lighting...

It worked the last time I turned it on. GS OS is what boots the GS.