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- From: jjs40@cd.amdahl.com (John Sullivan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Apple II RWTS codes.
- Message-ID: <48C402Bl1ezE01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 17:47:38 GMT
- Sender: netnews@ccc.amdahl.com
- Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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- I'm looking for some information on the internals of RWTS (Read/Write,
- Track/Sector) for both DOS3.3 and ProDOS-8 on the Apple II.
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- I have good understanding of the nibbilizing scheme used, and the underlying
- mechanisms in the Disk II controller. I have 6502 assembly source for
- track "ZAP" and "FORMAT" utilities, and several books (Beneath Apple DOS, etc.)
- on the subject of the low-level operation of disks.
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- What I would like to be able to do is rewrite a version of RWTS from scratch,
- but I am currently lacking an understanding of the mechanisms of how to deal
- with reading an writing sectors on the fly (as opposed to reading/writing/
- formatting an entire track at once.)
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- What would really be helpful would be to have some example 6502 assembly
- code to work from (besides just a disassembly of the DOS/ProDOS RWTS code.)
- I know that there is at least one DOS clone available in the public domain.
- Is the code for this available? Has anyone else ever done this? Are
- there any books that describe the whole process from start to finish (I
- already have the "Beneath" books.)
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- John Sullivan, Engineer/Computer Development. Email: jjs40@cd.amdahl.com.
- Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA. Phone: (408)746-4688.
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