20 Dec
2003
20 Dec
'03
8:16 a.m.
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, [iso-8859-1] Silvio Finotti
wrote:
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. Have I
missed something?
- don
Hi,
I would like to read/write apple II disks directly
from my PC. Searching the web I read about the
following hardware cards for PC:
-Option Boards (made by CentralPoint);
You need the "DELUXE" Option Board. Or consider the Catweasel as an alternative.
Are you ready and willing to write your own software for the task?
-Apple Turnover card;
Out of business,
never worked very well. SOMEWHERE, I have several crates
of DEAD ones.
-Trackstar card;
The Trackstar 128 and the
Quadlink were entire Apple][ clones on a
PC ISA card. Do they have software for file transfer?
(NOTE: on a sample size of ~50, we had >75% DOA rate on the Quadlink.
We received several that had connectors misinstalled, that could not have
ever been tested. We had a comparable DOA rate on the replacement units,
indicating that they never did ANY QA.)
Anyone knows where can I find one of those cards
??
Any other "DIY" solution would be apreciated too...
The cheapest and most versatile device for the task is a used Apple.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com