I have spent several hours searching websites and Apple II software archives looking for the Apple IIgs Programmer's Workshop. I have a couple of books that talk about the APW, a mention on Wikipedia's IIgs page and a few references on a couple of blogs, but I can't find the actual program. Does anyone know how to obtain it (or can give me a copy)? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
James
I'm guessing you already did, since you said you spent a lot of time searching, but there are some apple II programming tools here, which might help if you can't find the APW.
http://www.apple2.org.za/mirrors/
there's a file here AWGS.prog.shk ... who knows what someone may name a file to store it on his/her server?
http://www.apple2.org.za/mirrors/apple.cabi.net/Applications/AWGS/
Hope you find it, good luck.
You can find what you need here...
http://www.byteworks.us/Byte_Works/Morgue.html
Cortland Programmers Workshop is what Byteworks named it before it was provided to Apple and renamed Apple Programmers Workshop
Cortland Programmer’s Workshop
The Original Apple IIGS Development Environment
Back when the Apple IIGS was still a dream at Apple Computer, Apple began looking for a development environment to use for the new computer. It would have so much more RAM than the original Apple //e that an entirely different approach was needed. As it happened, ORCA/M for the Apple //e was already in place with a link editor, relocatable object module format, and support for the 65802 processor.
Apple decided to use a 16 bit version of ORCA/M as the standard development environment for the new machine, code named Cortland. On July 21, 1986, the last version of this environment that was still called Cortland Programmer’s Workshop was delivered to Apple for shipment to the developer community. Later versions were called Apple Programmer’s Workshop, or just APW.
Click on the disk image above to get your copy of that original submission to Apple Computer. The download file is a zipped DiskCopy 4.2 image, suitable for use on Apple IIGS emulators like Sweet16.
While the download is free, the software is still copyrighted. It cannot be redistributed in any form, including other web sites, without permission from the Byte Works.
Cortland Programmer’s Workshop
The Original Apple IIGS Development Environment
Back when the Apple IIGS was still a dream at Apple Computer, Apple began looking for a development environment to use for the new computer. It would have so much more RAM than the original Apple //e that an entirely different approach was needed. As it happened, ORCA/M for the Apple //e was already in place with a link editor, relocatable object module format, and support for the 65802 processor.
Apple decided to use a 16 bit version of ORCA/M as the standard development environment for the new machine, code named Cortland. On July 21, 1986, the last version of this environment that was still called Cortland Programmer’s Workshop was delivered to Apple for shipment to the developer community. Later versions were called Apple Programmer’s Workshop, or just APW.
Click on the disk image above to get your copy of that original submission to Apple Computer. The download file is a zipped DiskCopy 4.2 image, suitable for use on Apple IIGS emulators like Sweet16.
While the download is free, the software is still copyrighted. It cannot be redistributed in any form, including other web sites, without permission from the Byte Works.
Cortland Programmer’s Workshop
The Original Apple IIGS Development Environment
Back when the Apple IIGS was still a dream at Apple Computer, Apple began looking for a development environment to use for the new computer. It would have so much more RAM than the original Apple //e that an entirely different approach was needed. As it happened, ORCA/M for the Apple //e was already in place with a link editor, relocatable object module format, and support for the 65802 processor.
Apple decided to use a 16 bit version of ORCA/M as the standard development environment for the new machine, code named Cortland. On July 21, 1986, the last version of this environment that was still called Cortland Programmer’s Workshop was delivered to Apple for shipment to the developer community. Later versions were called Apple Programmer’s Workshop, or just APW.
Click on the disk image above to get your copy of that original submission to Apple Computer. The download file is a zipped DiskCopy 4.2 image, suitable for use on Apple IIGS emulators like Sweet16.
While the download is free, the software is still copyrighted. It cannot be redistributed in any form, including other web sites, without permission from the Byte Works.
When loaded into KEGS, clicking on 'ORCA.SYSTEM', results in the message "Place /CPW on line." Does anyone know what to do to get it to run?
Above this cryptic message is the following text that indicates version information...
" ORCA/HOST V4.1 A11
Copyright (C) June 1986
By The Byte Works, Incorporated
Place /CPW on line."
The above is how the screen appears.
Any help would be appreciated
You can find APW on archive.org - https://archive.org/search?query=apw
I found the documentation here - https://www.goldstarsoftware.com/applesite/
I hope this helps
I found a copy somewhere earlier this year (2024) probably from Mike Westerfield's Byteworks site, but it seems that the 'morgue' portion of that site is no longer available. In any case, I have attached that file CPW.img here. For me, it opens with Ciderpress, and it should do so for you as well.
This file opened up correctly in the GS+ emulator for me, so I'd expect that it will work for you as well.
I used the GSplus emulator to open the CPW disk image.
When you do so, you will see six items.
ORCA.SYSTEM
PRODOS
RELEASE.NOTES
and three folders...
SMALL.C
SYSTEM
UTILITIES
To start the Cortland Programmer's Workshop, double click the 'ORCA.SYSTEM' icon.
After that you will see the 'splash' screen identifying the version and copyright notice.
The ORCA/M prompt (#) will appear awaiting input. If you've never seen this before, and I didn't and had no idea what to do until I purchased the ORCA package, type 'help' to see a list of commands available.
I used the GS+ emulator to open APW.
I found five disk images for this.
APW_v1.0.po
APW_Utility_v1.0.po
APW_Debugger_disk_v1.1.po
APW_C_Workdisk_Examples.po
APW_Tools_2.po
I used 7zip to create a self-extracting archive, so all you should need to do under Windows is to create a folder, copy the 'Apple Programmer's Workshop.exe' file to that folder and double click it to extract the above five files.
Because Applefritter does not allow .exe files to be uploaded, I again used 7zip to create a 'normal' compressed file. This file is named 'Apple Programmer's Workshop.zip', and it the one attached to this post.
I tested this process on Windows 10, so it should work for others.