On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 11:02, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Ron Hudson wrote:
> > The problem is that I don't know how to setup the files so the compliler
> > actually works. Aztec currently lives on 4 5.25" diskettes, and I only
> > have a single 5.25" drive. I have two 3.5" drives, I would rather run
> > Aztec from the 3.5" drives.
>
> Copy all the files from the 5.25" disks to 3.5" disks. I'm not sure if
> Aztech will know what's going on though. Your best bet is to find a cheap
> hard drive that you can copy everything to.
>
> This guy made an IDE interface for the Apple ][:
>
> http://s.guillard.free.fr/Apple2IDE/Apple2IDE.htm
>
> He has the plans available for free and the parts cost less than $15
> (according to him).
If the guy has any left, you can go here:
http://www.dreher.net/?s=projects/CFforAppleII&c=projects/CFforAppleII/main.php
And get a little doo-hicky that'll let you use compact flash cards hard
drives in a Apple2. (Albeit its more expensive. - I think it'll work as
a single port IDE controller as well.)
Now the nice thing about using CF cards, is you can rip the CF card out,
plug it into your little 6-in-1 reader on your bigger Linux system, use
DD to pull out the hard drive images, then use:
http://search.cpan.org/~cjm/LibA2-0.003/
To manipulate the prodos image files directly on a Linux (or other Perl
running) system.
At least that's all in theory... I intend to use it to transfer/install
5.25" GEOS images to my Apple IIGS via this method as soon as I can
manage to locate my forever lost "round-to-it".... (I think it partnered
up w/ my motivation, and headed for the beach.. neither of which have
been seen since.)
David
Received on Wed Apr 28 2004 - 12:36:56 BST