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IIe Startup Resources

These are the most interesting resources in IIe Startup.

CNmc

These might be Macintosh-side drivers for each of the “cards.”

      4608       2336      "SmartPort"
      5376       1110      "AppleClock"
     24576        300      "IntlKeyDriver"
      5632        126      "Slot6"
      4352       2038      "MouseCard"
      4864       2184      "Modem"
      5888       2186      "Printer"
      4096        672      "Slinky"
      6400       3080      "NetPrint"
      5120      39144      "ATLK_Card"

'CNxx'

These appear to be the slot-mapped firmware, but a curiosity is that two of them, the memory card and the workstation card, are larger than the allocated slot space. These are not obfuscated.

      4608        256      "SmartPort"
      5376        256      "AppleClock"
      5632        256      "5.25� Disk"
      4352        256      "MouseCard"
      4864        256      "Modem"
      5888        256      "Printer"
      4096       1792      "Memory Card"
      6400        256      "NetPrint"
      5120       1792      "ATLK_Card"

C8xx

These appear to be the C8 Firmware for the various cards. They are not obfuscated.

      4608       2036      "SmartPort"
      5376          1      "AppleClock"
      4352        428      "MouseCard"
      4864       1823      "Modem"
      5888       1823      "Printer"
      4096       2048      "Memory Card"
      6400       1823      "NetPrint"
      5120       2048      "ATLK_Card"

ATLK_Card: A quick look shows that this modifies the memory config to switch in one of the PFI banks and then jumps to it.

Monx

These have simple XOR obfuscation with the key “DoubleX”.

At least A2EMonitorROM has 6 extra bytes at the beginning, an apparent header that tells the IIe application where to put the firmware

Bytes Use
0,1 6502 Address
2,3 Firmware RAM address low 16 bits?
4,5 ?
      2606      16390      "A2EMonitorROM"          ; 00 c0 00 00 00 00
                              This is the Apple IIe Enhanced Monitor ROM.  Differences
                              from normal (N) enhanced IIe ROM vs card (C) ROM:
                              C000-C0FF: N all $00
                                         C repeating CE 48 CF 4A
                              C280: N $0A, C $0B
                              C287: 10 bytes
                              C292: 6 bytes
                              ~C3F0-C5FF: large sections different
                              CB21: 5 bytes
                              E006: N $C4, C: $31 (CPY $20 -> AND ($20),Y)
                              F778: 15 bytes (except 377C), C: $60 followed by all $00
                              F8CF: N $00, C: $EA
                              FA78: N $B4 $FB $EA $AD
                                    C $CE $FE $EA $2C
                              FAB4: N $A9 $C8
                                    C $02 $02
                              FAC0: N $C9 $C0
                                    C $02 $03
                              FAD5: N $00 $00
                                    C $EA $EA
                              FB1E: 17 bytes except 3B20
                              FB63: N $A0 $09
                                    C $02 $04
                              FBBE: N $00, C: $03
                              FBDD: 5 bytes
                              FC7A: 27 bytes
                              FCC9: 9 byte (C: all $60 RTS)
                              FD78: N $C9 $95
                                    C $02 $06
                              FECD: 10 bytes, start with $60 RTS
                              FEFD: 13 bytes, start with $60 RTS
                              
                  
                              
      2607        108      "D1 NMI-IRQ Rcvr"        ; 00 d0 00 50 66 00
                              The bank D1 IRQ and NMI handler code.
      2608        108      "D2 NMI-IRQ Rcvr"        ; 00 d0 00 90 66 00
                              The bank D2 IRQ and NMI handler code.
      2609        429      "D1 INTCX"               ; fa c3 fa 43 a7 01
      2610        429      "D2 INTCX"               ; fa c3 fa 83 a7 01
      2611         12      "D1 Vectors"             ; fa ff fa 7f 06 00
                              These are the 6502 hardware vectors in bank D1:
                              00 d0 62 fa 03 d0
                              NMI=$d000   RESET=$fa62   IRQ/BRK=$d003
                              The NMI and IRQ vectors are within the space
                              of the handlers mentioned above.
      2612         12      "D2 Vectors"             ; fa ff fa bf 06 00
                              These are the 6502 hardware vectors in bank D2:
                              00 d0 62 fa 03 d0
                              same discussion as above
      5632       2042      "5.25� Disk"             ; 00 c8 00 f0 00 08
      5120       9478      "PFI Bank 0"             ; 00 d4 00 54 00 25
                              ProDOS Filing Interface
      5121       9478      "PFI Bank 1"             ; 00 d4 00 94 00 25
                              ProDOS Filing Interface
                              completely different than the bank 0 code above.
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===== BBLK ====

These contain the Workstation Card [[projects:iie_boot_blocks|Boot Blocks]].

<code>
      5120      35243      "Apple //e Boot Blocks"                            

IWEM

ImageWriter Emulator 1.4 PostScript file

      1810      29154      "NetPrint"