21 Dec
2003
21 Dec
'03
2:51 p.m.
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Don Maslin wrote:
That is true, but solves only a part of the problem.
The bigger
half is getting the content of the Apple II disks onto the PC. TC
or TCM will write an image file to the hard disk (or another
floppy) but it is still a big lump of GCR and not individual
files.
The Option Board (and CatWeasel) have the physical ability, but the
appropriate software does not seem to be available.
I stand corrected, Fred. That capability is in fact there for
Apple DOS and PRODOS. I have some other Apple disks which are
labled as being "Pascal Based" which it chokes on, and some of the
files on a PRODOS disk are uncopyable.
- don
Fred, to my knowledge either version of the Option
Board will do
no more than extract a pure binary copy of the disk and present
that in hex form. No translation into text or other.
That's right. IIRC, the
Deluxe included some software for transferring
files to/from Mac 400k/800K Now, if these were Apple II CP/M disks and he had
the appropriate
Uniform and MatchPoint software he could extract the individual
files readily and use them directly without the bother of the Mac
disk intermediary.
I thought that MicroSolutions had AppleDOS software for their Matchpoint
card.
> I just have not found a way to accomplish this end on AppleDOS or
> ProDOS disks. For the "Apple Turnover", I wrote the file
system handler for reading and
writing files to and from AppleDOS, Aplle ][ CP/M, ProDOS, and Apple
Pascal. Good luck finding a working board!
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com