Apple III & Profile

From: Sam Ismail <dastar_at_ncal.verio.com>
Date: Sat Aug 15 10:50:32 1998

On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, Doug Spence wrote:

> [re: disk image source]
> > Is that the same source that is mentioned in http://www.emulation.net/ or
> > somewhere else?
>
> Somewhere else. I know how freaked-out Apple users can get about piracy
> (I used to read comp.sys.apple2) so I'm not naming my source lest s/he
> gets lynched or mailbombed.

Oh, sheesh! I'm the source. I'm not afraid to let everyone know that I
have the Apple /// images available to anyone who wants them. The
comp.sys.apple2 anti-piracy retards basically have no lives outside of
that newsgroup and thus use the Flamewar of Evermore to bring some
pathetic sense of purpose to their extistence.

I seriously doubt anyone of consequence will get their panties up in a
bunch for handing the images out.

If anyone needs the disk images, just ask.

> The C library might be interesting. What I really want to know is how it
> *works*, not how to use it or what it does. I want to be able to write a
> deShrinkIt program for my Amiga that takes ShrinkIt files and builds valid
> .dsk images.

If you're lucky you should be able to track down the program's author
(forget the last name but his first is Andy and his name appears on the
program). He's still around so you should be able to either do a web
search on his name or ask the question on comp.sys.apple2 and someone will
most likely respond if they're not busy flaming somebody for uploading
Hunt the Wumpus to a public file area.

> Thanks for the offer, but that is uneccessary. I can't yet use ProTERM,
> and ShrinkIt is available on the 'net. I did manage to get it onto a
> ProDOS disk, but that corrupted on me, so I'll have to do it again. I've
> still got Apple III disk images on Apple DOS 3.3 disks, though, so some of
> the transfer work is already done.

The disk format is the same for DOS 3.3 and SOS and even ProDOS and Apple
Pascal. Its the filesystem that differs. You can read the data off of a
disk with one OS from any of the other OSes. So you can copy a SOS disk
with a DOS 3.3 copy program. With the images I gave you, you simply need
to unshrink them using ShrinkIt on your ][+. The disks will then be good
to go on your Apple ///. Let me know if you're still having problems and
I'll work you through it.

Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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