9 Jan
2002
9 Jan
'02
3:54 a.m.
Sorry for my previous mail, I hit send prematurely...
On 01/08/2002 08:47:59 PM PST "Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" wrote:
There have been a few special boards that could be installed into a PC to
do it. The Compaticard is NOT one of them. "Match Point" might be, as is
Apple Turnover, and it's even theoretically possible to do it with the
CopyII Option board (if you are willing to write a program comparable to
the Apple OS file system. Same with Catweasel - theoretical possibility,
but significant software needed but not available.
So would it be really possible for the CopyII Option board?
IOW, is there programming documentation available on the net?
regards,
chris
9 Jan
9 Jan
5:37 a.m.
On 9 Jan 2002, Christian Groessler wrote:
Definitely possible. It can read a RAW track, and then your software
would have to parse that to recreate the bytes and then the sector
boundaries. The details of the Apple track format are pretty well
described in "Beneath Apple DOS".
There is no readily available programming documentation for the option
board. Central Point was ultra-paranoid, and assumed that anybody wanting
to do so would be doing it for no other purpose than to go into
competition with them. (Kinda ironic, isn't it that those whose business
is copying are those most paranoid about being copied) They made me sign
Non-Disclosure-Agreements for grossly inadequate (less than 1/2 page of
useful info) and wrong info that did NOT match what was clear from
disassembly of TE.COM. Sorry, I don't know where that went when we closed
down and moved my office.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com
CopyII Option
board (if you are willing to write a program comparable to
the Apple OS file system. Same with Catweasel - theoretical possibility,
but significant software needed but not available.
So would it be really possible
for the CopyII Option board?
IOW, is there programming documentation available on the net? 
8:22 a.m.
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
On 9 Jan 2002, Christian Groessler wrote:
Definitely possible. It can read a RAW track, and then your software
would have to parse that to recreate the bytes and then the sector
boundaries. The details of the Apple track format are pretty well
described in "Beneath Apple DOS".
Hmmm, very cool. I could easily write some software to decode the
sectors. The problem is no documentation for the board :(
Anyone?
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CopyII
Option board (if you are willing to write a program comparable to
the Apple OS file system. Same with Catweasel - theoretical possibility,
but significant software needed but not available.
So would it be really possible
for the CopyII Option board?
IOW, is there programming documentation available on the net?
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