This LabVIEW AppleII Emulator does not ship with ROMs due to copyright. If you own an AppleII and an EPROM programmer, I believe it is legal for you to use the ROMs with this emulator.
There are six 2K ROMs used in the AppleII. You will need to somehow get the contents of the ROMs into six files. The file names must be the beginning memory location for the ROMs.
These are:
The disk controller has its own ROM:
If you own an AppleII but do not have an EEPROM programmer, I believe it is legal for you to download the ROMs from the Internet and use them with this emulator.
I am not a lawyer.
The zipfile: ROMS.ZIP available at:
ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/emulators/rom_images/
contains the files needed.
The following will need to be copied to the Memory subdirectory of this project and renamed as follows.
| Source File | Destination File |
|---|---|
| ROMS.ZIP/341011d0.bin | Memory/D000.rom |
| ROMS.ZIP/341012d8.bin | Memory/D800.rom |
| ROMS.ZIP/341013e0.bin | Memory/E000.rom |
| ROMS.ZIP/341014e8.bin | Memory/E800.rom |
| ROMS.ZIP/341015f0.bin | Memory/F000.rom |
| ROMS.ZIP/341020f8.bin | Memory/F800.rom |
When you run the emulator it will attempt to boot a floppy disk. Again you will have to download these. The two common formats for AppleII disk images are .NIB and .DSK. This emulator supports only .DSK files.
You can easily find the disk image files on the Internet.
Place the files in the Disks subdirectory of this project and restart the emulator. The disk files will be listed next to the monitor. Drag these to the floppy disk. Right now only the first drive works (the one on the left).
If you do not have a disk loaded, the emulator will seem to hang. Press reset which is F12. You should get a prompt with a flashing cursor.
There are lots of Applesoft references available on the web. Here is one:
http://www.landsnail.com/a2ref.htm