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  • Apple //e boot device?

    From Tim Riker@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jul 20 13:18:34 2022
    I have a real Apple //e Enhanced, but I have never owned any kind of harddisk interface.

    Running linapple under emulationstation / retropie on a Raspberry Pi:

    https://github.com/linappleii/linapple
    https://retropie.org.uk/

    I can add a hard drive images like these:

    https://archive.org/details/TotalReplay https://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/mecc-collection-run-classic-eduware-titles-from-a-hard-drive-as-well-as-gs-os/

    (are there other good examples?)

    However, I have not figured out how to "eject" or "remove" a hard drive once added.

    Is there a way to force boot to slot6 when there is a ProDOS hard disk connected to slot 7? Is this the preferred setup?

    How many people use the mixed case ProDOS as their preferred release?

    https://prodos8.com/ - ProDOS 8 v2.4.2
    https://prodos8.com/releases/prodos-25/ - ProDOS 2.5 Alpha 8

    It looks like linapple does not support a real time clock. Is there a "standard" real time clock in hardware on 8 bit hardware?

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  • From Steven Hirsch@21:1/5 to Tim Riker on Wed Jul 20 18:13:15 2022
    On 7/20/22 16:18, Tim Riker wrote:

    Is there a way to force boot to slot6 when there is a ProDOS hard disk connected to slot 7? Is this the preferred setup?

    On a real 2e, you can do Ctrl+Reset to get a firmware ']' prompt then 'PR#6'
    to start from slot 6. YMMV.

    How many people use the mixed case ProDOS as their preferred release?

    https://prodos8.com/ - ProDOS 8 v2.4.2 https://prodos8.com/releases/prodos-25/ - ProDOS 2.5 Alpha 8

    Mixed case? I need to get out more.

    It looks like linapple does not support a real time clock. Is there a "standard" real time clock in hardware on 8 bit hardware?

    The Thunderclock is about the closest to a 2e standard as you get. ISTR that ProDOS 8 will scan for one and use it without drivers being necessary.

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  • From D Finnigan@21:1/5 to Steven Hirsch on Thu Jul 21 01:57:44 2022
    Steven Hirsch wrote:

    It looks like linapple does not support a real time clock. Is there a
    "standard" real time clock in hardware on 8 bit hardware?

    The Thunderclock is about the closest to a 2e standard as you get. ISTR
    that
    ProDOS 8 will scan for one and use it without drivers being necessary.


    Yep, since the earliest versions of ProDOS. And the Thunderclock is imitated
    by other clock card manufacturers, like Applied Engineering's TimeMaster.

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    ]DF$
    The New Apple II User's Guide:
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