Re: ADT (Apple Disk Transfer) 1.22 Ported to the Amiga

["Ernest" <leucoplast@seanet.com>]

Excellent! I don't have an Amiga but I think it's great that you ported it.


Alexander G. M. Smith wrote in message <87qclm$ej4$1@dragon.achilles.net>...
>I've just posted my Amiga port of the ADT utility to the Asimov
>(ftp.apple.asimov.net) and the Aminet (main.aminet.net) FTP servers.
>
>Here's the included ReadMe file, which describes it better:
>
>
>Short: Apple ][ Disk Transfer via Serial Port
>Uploader: agmsmith@achilles.net (Alexander G. M. Smith)
>Author: pg@sff.net (Paul Guertin), agmsmith@achilles.net (Alexander G. M.
Smith)
>Type: misc/emu
>Version: 1.22
>Requires: AmigaOS 2.04+, Apple ][ with serial card, null modem cable.
>
>This is a quick and dirty port by Alexander G. M. Smith of the server
>side half of Paul Guertin's freeware ADT (Apple Disk Transfer) 1.22
>system from MS-DOS to the Amiga.  Posted with his permission.
>
>The unchanged client side (Apple ][ program, included) reads and writes
>standard 5.25 inch 16 sector 35 track floppy disks under Apple DOS 3.3,
>using raw sector reads and writes so it can also transfer ProDOS disks.
>The data read or written is transfered over an Apple super serial card
>running flat out at 19200 baud with RLE compression and 16 bit CRCs to
>the server, which dumps the data to/from a native Amiga file.  You can
>run it all from the Apple ][, even getting remote directory listings
>from your Amiga, to make dumping multiple disks easier.
>
>The resulting "DOS order" disk image file can be used in Apple
>emulators, such as the Apple2000 emulator on the Amiga (available on
>Aminet).  There are also several utilities for extracting files from
>the disk image file and otherwise manipulating it.
>
>See the README.TXT file in the MSDOS subdirectory for instructions on
>how to set up your Apple ][.  You'll need a terminal program for the
>Amiga to download the Apple software to the Apple (though you may be
>able to copy/type them to AUX: or SER:).  The files you download (from
>the AppleII directory) may need to have the line end characters changed
>from the MSDOS standard pair of CRLF to be the one the Apple uses
>(Carriage Return - CR) or the ones the terminal program expects (Line
>Feed - LF).  Use a utility like AGMSFixText to fix up the text files,
>or change settings in your terminal program so that it sends a carriage
>return to the Apple ][ at the end of each line.
>
>Here's a sample session on the Amiga side (the Apple ][ side has a
>nicer user interface with a big table of all the sectors, updated as
>they are read / written / transmitted):
>
>3.0 Ram Disk:Stuff> adtam 19200
>
>Apple Disk Transfer 1.22, Amiga version.
>Device name: serial.device
>Device unit number: 0
>Baud rate: 19200
>Type Control-C to interrupt server mode and enter a command.
>Got command "D" from the Apple II.
>Sending directory listing of RAM DISK:STUFF
>Line  3, File   0, Name "ADTAM".
>Line  4, File   1, Name "ADTAM.C".
>Line  5, File   2, Name "COMMAM.C".
>Line  6, File   3, Name "COMMAM.H".
>Line  7, File   4, Name "SCOPTIONS".
>Directory listing finished.
>Got command "S" from the Apple II.
>Receiving file name.
>Receiving file "MY BOOT DISK.DISK", Control-C to abort.
>Receiving track $00: FEDCBA9876543210
>Receiving track $01: FEDCBA9876543210
>Receiving track $02: FEDCBA9876543210
><...>
>Receiving track $20: FEDCBA9876543210
>Receiving track $21: FEDCBA9876543210
>Receiving track $22: FEDCBA9876543210
>File "MY BOOT DISK.DISK" received successfully in 1:22 (1748 cps).
><typed control-c at this point>
>Enter R to restart, Q to quit: q
>
>Goodbye!
>3.0 Ram Disk:Stuff>