21 Mar
2011
21 Mar
'11
9:58 p.m.
Al Kossow wrote about formatting the Apple Profile hard drive:
As in swapping the Z8 with a special one with a
piggyback
eprom?
Ian Primus wrote:
That's the Profile.
[...]
The reason the Profile needed a ROM swap to do
formatting is due
to the limits of the code space in the Z8. There isn't enough room
for both the formatting routines and the operational routines. So,
if you have a formatter ROM in the Profile, it won't work normally,
and with a normal ROM, you can't format it.
Is the necessary ROM code, and the host formatter program (for the
Apple ///?) available somewhere?
Eric