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Apple II ProDOS-8 system files that run on startup and install clock drivers, ramdisks, and other utilities
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cricket.system.s | ||
Makefile | ||
ns.clock.system.s | ||
prodos.mod.s | ||
README.md | ||
test.system.s |
The Cricket - ProDOS 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.
STATUS: Work In Progress
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
)