prodos-drivers/README.md

Cricket Clock Driver

I acquired a Cricket sound/clock peripheral on eBay. Therefore it is now critical that we have a conforming ProDOS clock driver for it.

Background

"The Cricket" by Street Electronics Corporation, released in 1984, is a hardware peripheral for the Apple //c computer. It plugs into the serial port and offers a multi-voice sound synthesizer, a speech synthesizer, and a real-time clock.

The included disks include:

• /CRICKET/PRODOS.MOD which can be BRUN to patch ProDOS in memory with a clock driver.
• A modified version of ProDOS
• A utility to patch ProDOS on disk

Goal

Like the NS.CLOCK.SYSTEM (author?) ideally we would have:

• A ProDOS .SYSTEM file
• Which detects the presence of a Cricket
• And if found, installs the driver in memory following the ProDOS clock driver protocol
• And finally chains to the next .SYSTEM file (e.g. BASIC.SYSTEM)