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Thank you very much for all of this, Mike. I do hope that your folks manage to find more bits of ZNR lying around, but no worries if it's all gone and I'm a few decades late :) I've nearly got uznr (the uqwk-like NNTP-to-ZNR packaging tool) to a point where it's usable. I intend to update the...

@doshea Thanks for the kind words. This was a fun little project; I hadn't analyzed copy-protection in any meaningful way since the late nineties, and it was neat to see that I could still do it. Thank you very much for the pointer to textfiles.com, as I wasn't aware that it existed. I found...

Hello, Due to retirement, the ensuing boredom, and overwhelming nostalgia, I've been putting together replicas of the machines I used in the 80s/90s. One of the bits of software I used quite a bit was a pretty neat offline USENET reader named "ZipNews Reader". It was written by Jack Kilday...

Well done :)

That's fair; Steve sells an adapter (https://shop.bigmessowires.com/products/dual-525-adapter-for-disk-ii-interface-card) that consolidates the two floppy signals into one cable for the dual-drive FloppyEmu. Works fine with the Franklin controller, and I used it before I built the weyoun clone...

Forgot: The Unarchiver (https://theunarchiver.com/) can extract .lbr files; copy them into an Apple-formatted CP/M floppy image with cpmcp. There might be a more streamlined way of doing that, but it's been awhile and I haven't had my morning coffee yet :)

AppleCommander (https://applecommander.github.io/) can convert CP/M .sdk files to .do/.po. An example: (06:46:25 wilbur <~/tmp/w>) 0 $ ls -l total 56 -rw-r--r-- 1 wileyc users 56599 Jan 9 06:40 ws333d1.sdk (06:46:27 wilbur <~/tmp/w>) 0 $ applecommander-ac -l ws333d1.sdk ws333d1.sdk.po CP/M...

*chuckle* Glad that I could be of service :) If you have the FloppyEmu rev C (which you probably do), it will emulate dual drives. You'd need to perform a modification to your Franklin controller board (cut the trace leading to pin 5 on the first floppy connector, then connect that pin...

Try moving the 80-column card to slot #3 ... that's where most things (probably including the Franklin CP/M card) expect to find it. A bunch of CP/M boot images can be found at https://mirrors.apple2.org.za/ftp.apple.asimov.net/images/cpm/os/

That's very good to hear, congratulations. If you're using the Franklin CP/M card, IIRC it uses the same boot disks as the PCPI card. (Franklin didn't do *anything* original with the exception of their comm card and color daughterboard, and both were designed ... um, *special*) As an aside...

That's good news -- Steve is a very good (and patient!) guy. If the FloppyEmu works okay with the Apple gear, then no worries, we'll figure out what's wrong with the Franklin controller and get you running.

The FloppyEmu saying "WRITE" suggests that U10 is (de)asserting the signal to pin 18 on the floppy connector -- that's a "must not happen" case during a pure read operation. I'd test U2 (74x02), U3 (74x14), U6 (74x05), U8 (74x08), and U10 (74x109). That's nearly everything in that signal path...

That's good, very good. If the real drive is seeking, then the FloppyEmu should be able to do the same thing. Try connecting the FloppyEmu to the drive 1 header, selecting a blank disk image (.do, .po, .woz, shouldn't matter), and trying the same seek commands. You should see the FloppyEmu...

Ah, hmmm. It looks like you didn't enter technician mode: that screenshot (which *did* go through) indicates that you're in the monitor, not technician mode (you should see a "#" as a prompt, not the monitor's "*"), the floppy controller looks like it is in slot 5 rather than 6, so jumping to...

Okay, yes, it's not loading anything from disk. You'd see a ProDOS splash screen otherwise, where it would lock if it was a version that checked if it was running on a clone. (strongly, *strongly* recommend you test with ProDOS 2.4.2 from here to forestall further WAGging about ROM...

Apple ProDOS (i.e., versions before John Brooks' 2.0.3, starting with 1.01 IIRC) checked the machine ROM signature early in the boot process. If the check failed, ProDOS locks at the boot splash screen. If the problem was ROM incompatibility, you would see/hear disk activity, then see the...

(quick aside to prevent incorrect information from being propagated) The BMOW FloppyEmu doesn't work in an ACE1000 with an Apple controller -- timing difference between the ACE1000 and the ][+. It will, however, work with the Franklin controller. Steve@BMOW is aware of the issue but there is...

I think he was expecting the original Integer BASIC ROMs. That's an Applesoft ROM prompt.

I personally don't think so; it exists only to work around the Apple patent on color signal generation. The color signal generated by the board is so lousy that I converted my ACE1000 that had the board to monochrome. Apple-style color can then be had for the cost of a few passive components...

I don't think so; the Franklin AppleSoft ROM is identical to Apple's. I think the way it was supposed to work is that the program would switch into GR mode and just print characters, which would be in the alternate charset in the top half of the chargen 2532. Maybe, just a WAG based on the...