Apple // Emulator Disk Images

[Zane H. Healy]

>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 ;)

That's the part that's easy and works flawlessly (though a bit time 
consuming).  I write the images to a 1.44MB Mac formated floppy using 
a USB floppy drive connected to my G5, copy the data to the HD of my 
PowerBook 540c (this is easier than setting up to go via ethernet). 
With the PowerBook I copy it to a 800MB ProDOS floppy (it's old 
enough, and running System 7.5.3, so this is a built in capability). 
At that point I read the 3.5" floppy on my //gs and copy to its HD.

>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)?

I got "Copy II plus" V9.1 on the Apple, so I can format the floppies, 
and I can see where DSK2FILE has written stuff out there.

>  > 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.

ADT is available for the Mac, and I used it years ago on my SE/30. 
Having said that, putting my hands on the necessary cable for a Mac 
would be even more difficult than for a PC.

I might just get everything back out (I put it all away this morning) 
later on tonight and try some more.  I really am kind of fixated on 
this at the moment.

		Zane


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