On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Don Maslin 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.
> > That's right. IIRC, the Deluxe included some software for transferring
> > files to/from Mac 400k/800K
> That is true, but solves only a part of the problem. The bigger
> half is getting the content of the Apple II disks onto the PC. TC
> or TCM will write an image file to the hard disk (or another
> floppy) but it is still a big lump of GCR and not individual
> files.
The Option Board (and CatWeasel) have the physical ability, but the
appropriate software does not seem to be available.
> Now, if these were Apple II CP/M disks and he had the appropriate
> Uniform and MatchPoint software he could extract the individual
> files readily and use them directly without the bother of the Mac
> disk intermediary.
I thought that MicroSolutions had AppleDOS software for their Matchpoint
card.
> I just have not found a way to accomplish this end on AppleDOS or
> ProDOS disks.
For the "Apple Turnover", I wrote the file system handler for reading and
writing files to and from AppleDOS, Aplle ][ CP/M, ProDOS, and Apple
Pascal. Good luck finding a working board!
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin_at_xenosoft.com
Received on Sun Dec 21 2003 - 01:05:27 GMT