Re: Apple II MS-DOS (was CP/M) site?

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

cturley2@aol.com (Cturley2) wrote:

>Supertimer followed the above post from Celt with this noted below in quotes:
>
>"If coprocessor cards are what you want to support, how about
>adding an area for PC Transporter MS-DOS hard drive disk
>images?  The PCT uses disk image files treated as C drive.
>Disk images for the IBM Turbo XT emulator running on the
>Apple IIGS, basically.
>
>IBM XT software in this format is not easy to find anymore."
>
>And to that I reply:  I'm sure such could be arranged on the site also.
>EXACTLY what specific image file format is this???  Also note: that the 
>PC Transporter MS-DOS card hard drive disk - complete software is now
>on the above site in an archive format for use with that hardware.
>
>Supertimer, I await your reply with the exact and specific type of image file
>format you want for use with the PC Transporter MS-DOS card hard drive disk
>hardware needs.

PC Transporter MS-DOS disk images are file type $6F.  The
only software that supports these images are the software
side of the PC Transporter hardware/software emulation
system and Peter Watson's MS-DOS Tools and MUG!
programs.

The main need to preserve these images stems from the fact
that PC Transporter cards are getting traded around and
over time more and more of the PCT cards lose the cabling
that allows them to use an Apple 3.5 disk drive as a PC
floppy drive.  Transdrives are failing even faster.  Without
these, the PC Transporter cannot read and write real PC
disk.  What is needed is a library of software in disk image
format.  Bootable images with XT software on them so the
PCT will be useful by itself.

There are plenty of public domain and shareware stuff
that I think would be useful for IIGS PCT users.  Unpacking
software for Mac StuffIt and all the PC archive formats, for
example.  Shareware graphics conversion utilities (such
as ones that convert from Mac PICT to GIF).  Lots of other
stuff.

I used to have a fair amount of goodies for the PCT, but
a hard drive crash trashed my PCT images.

The PCT can easily launch $6F disk images.  It considers
them as C drives.  For non-PC users, the C drive is the
main hard drive that gets booted on the PC.

So PCT users, please image your freely distributable
utilities and upload them on bootable disk images
compressed with ShrinkIt! to Celt's archive.  Thank you.