shaunc@gold.gvg.tek.com (Shaun Case) (04/05/91)
(forgive me if this has been covered before -- I'm new to this group.) I recently got a copy of a really neat Apple 2 emulator from Simtel. Being a past devotee of the Apple ][ family, I find myself with about 100 disks of Apple ][ software and development tools, but no Apple. The problem is, the emulator, while quite complete, uses disk images of apple disks stored on the PC's hard disk (ie, 143k binary files, 1 per disk.) The emulator comes with a single disk image, which contains Copy II plus, but does not support any kind of serial IO. So, the problem is -- how can I get my Apple ][ disks as binary images on my PC's hard disk? I can round up an old Apple II with a modem, but I don't want to transfer files, just an image of the whole disk. I could use DDD on the apple side to create the image, but then when I get it on the PC side, I can't un-DDD it. What I would like is an apple term program that will send binary images of a disk in an uncompressed format, using a protocol that does at least some meager error detection (like Xmodem.) However, I can't be choosy, so I'll take what I can get. The author left no address that I could find in the package; if anyone has an idea about how to do this, please let me know. Maybe someone would like to write one (in assembly, for speed, of course) -- seems like it shouldn't be too hard to do (it wasn't for the C64) but I don't have an Apple to write it on, nor space on my desk for one, but I want to run those Apple II+ programs... Shaun.
fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Andy McFadden) (04/08/91)
In article <2140@gold.gvg.tek.com> shaunc@gold.gvg.tek.com (Shaun Case) writes: >The problem is, the emulator, while quite complete, uses disk >images of apple disks stored on the PC's hard disk (ie, 143k >binary files, 1 per disk.) The emulator comes with a single >disk image, which contains Copy II plus, but does not support >any kind of serial IO. So, the problem is -- how can I get >my Apple ][ disks as binary images on my PC's hard disk? If you have or know somebody who has Microsoft C, you can compile NuLib on your machine and extract ShrinkIt disk archives into files. All you have to do is pack the disk with ShrinkIt, transfer it to your PC, and extract it under MS-DOS. I know that it works for the UNIX Apple II emulator, so I don't see why it wouldn't work for the PC version. NuLib is available on tybalt and on avalanche/tornado/headcrash.berkeley.edu via anonymous FTP (pub/Apple2). The current version is v3.03. >Shaun. -- fadden@cory.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden) ..!ucbvax!cory!fadden fadden@hermes.berkeley.edu (when cory throws up)