10 Jan
2019
10 Jan
'19
8:16 p.m.
On 11 Jan 2019, at 10:33 am, Guy Dunphy via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
That's a very good point, thanks. Hadn't occured to me, but of course the
vast majority of Apple IIs ever sold used the 16 sector format. So that was
the target market.
Since almost all my A2 disks are DOS 3.2 13 sector, sounds like reading them
with the A2 then transferring contents to PC via some link is the way to go.
Hmm, I was given an Apple IIe about two decades ago, but never used it. Presumably
my Apple DOS 3.2 driver card would work in that, and it could boot DOS 3.2
Possibly that's a fallback plan if I can't resolve the severely flakey operation
of my early model, massively hacked Apple II. Assuming the IIe is less flakey.
There is a 13 sector version of ADTPro. All you need is a working Apple II or IIe with a
floppy drive and serial card (or ethernet card).
It can even bootstrap the Apple into 13 sector DOS 3.2 mode and then you can read and
transfer disk images to a PC via serial or ethernet.
Then use CiderPress to read the files from the disk images.