A2SERVER

AppleTalk server for Apple // computers developed by Ivan Drucker, with substantial rework and by T. Joseph Carter

Documentation here is sparse for the moment; see Ivan's site for information about A2SERVER and how it all works. There's a lot there and it's kind of evolved organically over the years just as the scripts themselves have, so it's going to be awhile before that information can be backfilled and perhaps organized into something you might call a user manual.

Such a manual should not be considered a replacement for Ivan's organic online documentation--those contents themselves represent Apple // history, if a relatively modern piece of it. As such they should be preserved as they are.

Developer note

To use the scripts with a specific GitHub tag:

export A2SERVER_SCRIPT_URL=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NJRoadfan/a2server/TAG_GOES_HERE/
export A2SERVER_BINARY_URL=${A2SERVER_SCRIPT_URL}files
wget -O setup ${A2SERVER_SCRIPT_URL}setup/index.txt; source setup

Or, to use the scripts on your own server, including your local machine:

export A2SERVER_SCRIPT_URL=http://yoururl.com/

To prevent needing to recompile various packages from source code during installation, a number of precompiled binary files are downloaded for Raspbian, Debian-x86, and Debian-amd64. If you wish to host these on your own server:

export A2SERVER_BINARY_URL=http://yoururl.com/files/

You do not need to use a subdirectory called "files", or the same server, but that's the normal arrangement. The precompiled packages are available here: http://appleii.ivanx.com/a2server/files/dist/a2serverbinaries.tar.gz

Several Apple II third-party binaries are downloaded during installation, as well as third-party source code if precompiled binaries are unavailable or you don't wish to use them. If you want these external dependencies locally during development, they need to go into a folder called "external" in the binaries URL, and that needs to contain folders called "appleii" and "source". To download all of these external packages, download and run the shell script at http://appleii.ivanx.com/a2server/files/dist/getexternal.sh.

Once you have those:

export A2SERVER_NO_EXTERNAL=1

You may want to put the above exports into ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile.

If you want to host scripts locally installed on your own machine or another computer on your LAN, type the following, and export "http://localhost:8000/" or "http://lan.ip.address:8000/" for the above URL's.

python3 -m http.server

Once you're set, you can then run the following snippet to install A2SERVER:

wget -O setup ${A2SERVER_SCRIPT_URL}setup/index.txt; source setup

Offline install:

Offline installs are no longer supported with A2SERVER 2.x.