looking for: Option Board, Trackstar, Turnover Card or similars

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Sun Dec 21 22:51:49 2003

On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Fred Cisin wrote:

> 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.

I stand corrected, Fred. That capability is in fact there for
Apple DOS and PRODOS. I have some other Apple disks which are
labled as being "Pascal Based" which it chokes on, and some of the
files on a PRODOS disk are uncopyable.

                                                - don

> 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!
>
> --
> Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin_at_xenosoft.com
>
>
>
Received on Sun Dec 21 2003 - 22:51:49 GMT