15 Mar
2006
15 Mar
'06
10:32 a.m.
William Blair wrote:
Can Apple II disks be copied using a PC 5.25"
drive and/or can downloaded images of Apple II
system disks be written to a PC drive? I'd suspect that because of the unusual
format of the
Apple II floppies that special formatting/copying software would be required to do this.
Does
this software exist?
Yes and no. It depends on what you're trying to achieve.
I have successfully dumped an Apple II disk to a Transcopy image file
using my Central Point Option Board, then converted that image file to a
.DSK image file to be used in Apple II emulators... but that required my
Option Board hardware. Along similar lines, I would imagine a Catweasel
could do it, but I've never tried.
Disk2FDI can read very many formats, but it has some limitations; see
www.oldskool.org (follow Disk2FDI link) for more info.
But if you want to *WRITE* Apple II disks... that's not usually
possible. Most people have a serial cable hooked between their Apple
and PC to write out stuff they download.
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