On Sunday 21 December 2003 15:03, Fred Cisin wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, [iso-8859-1] Silvio Finotti wrote:
> > Thank you all for the replys....
> > Just discovered a software that claims to read Apple
> > II disks (and other formats too) using a normal PC
> > without no extra hardware (except for with 2 disk
> > drives, 1 must be 5,25)!!! . Have not tested it yet,
> > since I didn't found my old drives....
>
> Reads Apple ][ disks without no extra hardware?
> Does it also turn water into wine?
> Lead into gold?
> cure cancer?
> Wanna buy a bridge?
>
> > There's the link.... it's really interestint !!!
> > http://www.oldskool.org/disk2fdi/index_html
>
> Where on there does it make any claim about Apple?
I too am skeptical, but it has some more information here:
http://www.oldskool.org/disk2fdi/trial.html
along with some more documentation in the ZIP file you can download.
I'd have to see it to believe it, but who knows... I wish the guy had
some more technical details about it on his website... i'm tempted to
run the .COM through DEBUG or some other disassembler to see what he's
doing...
One thing to note is that he says it requires a *2nd* floppy drive for
non-PC compatible formats. So, I'm guessing he screws with the floppy
select lines somehow to "mix" the data streams from two drives and try
to get the PC controller to parse it. Still, I'm skeptable that it's
possible to work well, and I'm fairly certain it can't be reliable.
Pat
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Received on Sun Dec 21 2003 - 14:46:09 GMT