reading apple ii disks with PCs: it WORKS

From: Dwight K. Elvey <dwight.elvey_at_amd.com>
Date: Tue Jan 6 13:14:19 2004

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>Hi all,
>
>The link for the "magical" software are:
>http://www.oldskool.org/disk2fdi/index_html
>
>For use with C64 disks, you'll have to make a little
>"hack" at the PC 5,25 drive. (it needs to spin at
>300rpm, and almost all 5,25 drives will spin at defaut
>at 360rpm)

Hi
 Of course, I suspect that if you use a 360K drive, this
isn't an issue. From the docs, it looks like it is
configureable on things like double stepping for the 96tpi.
Dwight

>
>For reading the flip side of the disk it's necessary
>an othe hack at the 5,25 drive. It's very simple, I've
>made it mysel without problems...
>
>If anyone wants some help on reading the disks, let me
>know... it's really simple. I have some images here
>that I extracted... if anyone want to "see" one of
>them, let me know too...
>
>[ ]s
>Silvio Finotti
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