Apple disk -> MSDOS

From: Sellam Ismail <foo_at_siconic.com>
Date: Wed Jan 9 13:22:43 2002

On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:

> On 9 Jan 2002, Christian Groessler wrote:
> > >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?
>
> 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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