Apple III & Profile

From: Doug Spence <ds_spenc_at_alcor.concordia.ca>
Date: Mon Aug 17 01:09:19 1998

On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, Sam Ismail wrote:

> 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.

Glad to hear it Sam! Just didn't know if the cat was supposed to be kept
in the bag. :)

[re: ShrinkIt]

> 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.

Yup, I'm aware of that. I actually just used my A1020 drive to make .dsk
images of my existing /// disks, as I also did with my Apple CP/M disks.

> 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.

I'm just lazy/short of time and don't feel like going through all of the
stages. The version of ShrinkIt I was able to find seemed to only want to
run on ProDOS, and that's where the major hassle lies.

Seeing as I had been planning on attempting to write Apple disks with my
Amiga 1020 drive, I thought it would be cool if I could write the ShrinkIt
files directly or to a .dsk image on my Amiga as well. If I understood
the ShrinkIt archive format, it might take less time to write a
ShrinkIt->.dsk converter than it'd take to do everything through ProDOS.
And considering my last experience with ProDOS, it'd be less prone to
error. :)

One of the major bottlenecks is my Hayes Micromodem IIe, which is
currently my only means of getting data to the ][+.

I'll get it done eventually, Sam, I just don't feel like facing ProDOS
again. :)

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Doug Spence
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