11 Dec
2003
11 Dec
'03
5:32 a.m.
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
There's a command you can use in Applesoft Basic
to redirect console I/O
to a card in one of its slots - eg, the Super-Serial card. I don't
know what it is, and can't find a refernce to it using google. Does
someone else on the list remember how to do this?
To "turn on" the serial card:
PR#2
Then to get into its (crappy) command interpreter press CTRL-A.
Apparently no one has thought to scan in the command documentation for the
SSC (probably because no one ever really used it). I can't find a copy
online. But anyway, you don't want to go that route since you'll still
need to write some software to send your files over the serial port.
Another option is ADT:
http://www.callapple.org/magazine/2002may/ADT.pdf
It transfers whole disk images to a PC over the serial port. I've used it
before and it is excellent. You'll then need to use an emulator such as
Apple ][ Oasis:
http://www.geocities.com/apl24win/index.html
...which supports extracting individual files from Apple ][ disk images.
It would probably be as efficient (perhaps if not more so) than
transfering individual files over a serial port (after you get the right
terminal software on each side).
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