11 Dec
2003
11 Dec
'03
10:55 a.m.
There have been some Apple emulators.
Does anyone know if any of them can read Apple 5.25" floppies?
This is almost a FAQ here.
The PC disk controller cannot read Apple ][ floppies. The drives can,
but the controller can't make sense of the bitstream that comes ou on the
read data line.
There have been alternative controllers for the PC (Catweasel, etc) that
can read Apple ][ disks, and there were hardware add-in cards that added
a 6502 CPU and an Apple disk controller to the PC. But without extra
hardware you can't read Apple ][ disks on a PC.
-tony