Re: Public domain floppy bootloader for Lisa

Awesome guys!

Terry (Tez)

On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 12:16 PM, Tom Stepleton <stepleton_at_email.domain.hidden> wrote:

> Forgot to add: no new program announcement is complete without a
> screenshot. Here is one:
>
> https://goo.gl/photos/vyHwSeUwrZYUAtRdA
>
> --Tom
>
>
> On Tuesday, October 25, 2016 at 12:08:38 AM UTC+1, Tom Stepleton wrote:
>>
>> Hi Lisa friends,
>>
>> I've written a floppy disk bootloader for Lisa and released it into the
>> public domain. You can find it here:
>>
>> https://github.com/stpltn/bootloader
>>
>> For now it only works with 3.5" disks, but adapting it to Twiggy should
>> be fairly straightforward.
>>
>> A supporting script for creating bootable .dc42 disk images is included.
>>
>> The bootloader has been tested on simulated and actual Lisa hardware.
>>
>> The documentation and comments aim to make the bootloader's code and
>> operation understandable to the novice.
>>
>> Thanks are due to Ray for LisaEm, James for helpful notes in the BLU
>> manual, the archivists at Bitsavers, and various other online resources.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> --Tom
>>
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