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- Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.archives
- Subject: Re: Apple IIe emulator for the PC
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- Sender: hakes@trg.saic.com (Donald Hakes)
- Organization: Technology Research Group, SAIC
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- From: hakes@marge (Donald Hakes)
- Message-ID: <9102562@MVB.SAIC.COM>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 21:47:50 GMT
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- >Article 5985 (5 more) in comp.binaries.ibm.pc.archives:
- >tsand@vipunen.hut.fi (Tapio Sand)
- >
- >writes
- >
- >Lets say I have access to an Apple II computer and a IBM computer.
- >How do I get an image of an Apple floppy onto my MSDOS hard disk?
- >Through a serial cable, I guess. However, how do I make an image file
- >out of the Apple disk? What program or utility can create the image?
-
- I had these same problems trying to get some old stuff over to my PC. I
- solved them this way: first I transfered all the old programs over a null
- modem, but the tricky part was the format of the data. I couldn't get my apple
- comm programs to transfer things in a usable fashion, so I used CopyII+
- to VIEW the HEX of the programs I wanted and piped that to a printer I
- told the program was my modem port. I captured that on my PC as a seperate
- file for each program.
-
- Then I wrote a quick C routine to read that data in as text and write it
- out to a mask as binary. The mask I made from one of the working disk
- images for the emulator, but I'd deleted all the files on it to have
- a clean disk. Then I simply had to hex edit the mask with the sector
- locations of the new program (the routine could be made to do this, but
- I didn't want to spend that much time with it) and I had a working image
- disk containing just the program I wanted.
-
- This is somewhat inconvenient just having one program on a disk so I
- just loaded the program under the emulator and copied it to another
- disk. It's sort of a long way to go about things, but playing Sabotage
- on the PC was pretty much worth it. It was an interesting project.
-
- Also, to change disks during the emulator runs, try using a multi-tasker
- and just copy the new image over the diska or diskb image you want it in.
-
- If anyone wants more info, or the silly routine I wrote, please let me know.
- Hope this helps, or I just sent a message to A LOT of people who don't
- care.
-
- Donald Hakes
-