28 Apr
2004
28 Apr
'04
5:36 a.m.
On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 11:02, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
If the guy has any left, you can go here:
http://www.dreher.net/?s=projects/CFforAppleII&c=projects/CFforAppleII/…
And get a little doo-hicky that'll let you use compact flash cards hard
drives in a Apple2. (Albeit its more expensive. - I think it'll work as
a single port IDE controller as well.)
Now the nice thing about using CF cards, is you can rip the CF card out,
plug it into your little 6-in-1 reader on your bigger Linux system, use
DD to pull out the hard drive images, then use:
http://search.cpan.org/~cjm/LibA2-0.003/
To manipulate the prodos image files directly on a Linux (or other Perl
running) system.
At least that's all in theory... I intend to use it to transfer/install
5.25" GEOS images to my Apple IIGS via this method as soon as I can
manage to locate my forever lost "round-to-it".... (I think it partnered
up w/ my motivation, and headed for the beach.. neither of which have
been seen since.)
David
On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Ron Hudson wrote:
The problem is
that I don't know how to setup the files so the compliler
actually works. Aztec currently lives on 4 5.25" diskettes, and I only
have a single 5.25" drive. I have two 3.5" drives, I would rather run
Aztec from the 3.5" drives.
Copy all the files from the 5.25" disks to 3.5" disks. I'm not sure if
Aztech will know what's going on though. Your best bet is to find a cheap
hard drive that you can copy everything to.
This guy made an IDE interface for the Apple ][:
http://s.guillard.free.fr/Apple2IDE/Apple2IDE.htm
He has the plans available for free and the parts cost less than $15
(according to him).