Dear fellow Mac and Apple enthusiasts!
If you've ever tried to use a classic Macintosh as a disk server for your Apple II, you probably know the frustration: The old Mac version "ADT 1.33" is incompatible with the modern ADTPro protocol.
If you wanted to use modern ADTPro features, you were forced to connect a modern PC or Mac via clumsy USB-to-Serial adapters.
To bridge this gap, I wrote MacADTPro: a native, lightweight host server that brings the modern ADTPro protocol directly to vintage Macintosh computers running System 7 (requires a 68020 CPU or higher).
Now you can use a period-correct, pure retro setup without giving up the speed and features of the modern ADTPro ecosystem!
What it does:
It allows your classic Mac to act as a modern ADTPro server for your Apple II. It fully supports bare-metal RAM bootstrapping, meaning it can push the modern ADTPro client software straight into the Apple II's memory over a standard serial cable—no bootstrap disk required.
Tested Hardware Setup:
• Hosts: Macintosh SE/30, Quadra 700 (System 7+)
• Clients: Apple IIe, Apple IIc
• Connection: Mini-DIN 8 printer/modem port to Apple II serial port.
Technical Details:
• Written in C/C++ using the excellent Retro68 toolchain.
• Open-source and licensed under GPL 2.0.
Download:
You can find MacADTPro here on the Macintosh Garden exclusively - current version is 0.1.
Source: https://github.com/alexBethke/MacADTPro
I would love to hear your feedback, and let me know if you test it on other hardware combinations!
If you've ever tried to use a classic Macintosh as a disk server for your Apple II, you probably know the frustration: The old Mac version "ADT 1.33" is incompatible with the modern ADTPro protocol.
If you wanted to use modern ADTPro features, you were forced to connect a modern PC or Mac via clumsy USB-to-Serial adapters.
To bridge this gap, I wrote MacADTPro: a native, lightweight host server that brings the modern ADTPro protocol directly to vintage Macintosh computers running System 7 (requires a 68020 CPU or higher).
Now you can use a period-correct, pure retro setup without giving up the speed and features of the modern ADTPro ecosystem!
What it does:
It allows your classic Mac to act as a modern ADTPro server for your Apple II. It fully supports bare-metal RAM bootstrapping, meaning it can push the modern ADTPro client software straight into the Apple II's memory over a standard serial cable—no bootstrap disk required.
Tested Hardware Setup:
• Hosts: Macintosh SE/30, Quadra 700 (System 7+)
• Clients: Apple IIe, Apple IIc
• Connection: Mini-DIN 8 printer/modem port to Apple II serial port.
Technical Details:
• Written in C/C++ using the excellent Retro68 toolchain.
• Open-source and licensed under GPL 2.0.
Download:
You can find MacADTPro here on the Macintosh Garden exclusively - current version is 0.1.
Source: https://github.com/alexBethke/MacADTPro
I would love to hear your feedback, and let me know if you test it on other hardware combinations!
