Apple // Emulator Disk Images

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On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Zane H. Healy wrote:

> > > It does indeed appear that DSK2FILE requires the disk image to be
> > > preformated.  Even more irritating I can't seem to get the //gs to
> > > read any of the disks I write with DSK2FILE :^(
> >
> > Under what OS?  Are you getting hard errors (disk recalibration) or soft
> > errors?
>
> I was running DSK2FILE under System 6.  I've tried writting a DOS 3.3 disk,
> as well as those two Wizardry/Tekumel disks I posted the link to.

Oh yeah, I forgot you were trying to create the images on the Mac.  If you
can get the complete disk image onto your //gs without trouble then let me
know and I'll send you a quick & dirty program to write the image to disk
on the //gs (but you'll need to make sure the disk is preformatted ;)

> I've gotten zero errors, though when I try to boot the disks, it comlains it
> can't.

Sounds like it's not being written properly?  Can you look at the disk
with a sector editor and see if there is at least any data on track 0,
sector 0 (the boot sector)?

> > Don't you hate that?  Stuff that should be simple gets dragged out into an
> > unproductive timesink needlessly.  Ditch DSK2FILE and use ADT instead.
>
> Yes, I do hate it.  Will ADT run under System 6?  I'd thought you had to run
> a server on the Apple, and use a client on the PC to connect to it via
> serial line and send the data over the serial line.  It's been years since I
> used it, so I might be totally off on how it works.  One thing I should
> probably also take a look at is "Asimov 2.0".

Yes, sorry, I forgot you were running on a Mac.  Still, if you have a PC
handy and can get a null modem cable, ADT works pretty well.

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