Re: Apple ][c to PC Disk Transfer

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Mike <moose@rocknet.net.au> wrote:

>After playing around with a Trackstar 128 card on my PC - and not having
>as much success with it as I hoped - I am buying an Apple ][c tonight to
>transfer a whole heap of disks to my PC over the weekend for use with
>emulators - some of these disks are not on Asimov or the versions I have
>are different from those on Asimov - and there should also be quite a
>few programs I wrote in 1980-1984 and quite a few BASIC / assembler
>programs my brother and I typed in from magazines.
>
>I have had a very quick look at the readme files in :
>- senddisk.zip
>- adt121.zip
>- ap2222pc.zip
>- a2pctr11.zip
>
>Any hints/ tips ?

There's one program you don't have that can make a lot of difference.
The program is called DSK2FILE and can be found in the emulators
folder at:

http://ground.ecn.uiowa.edu/apple2/

Files in ground are in .txt and .shk pairs.  The .txt files are descriptions
and can be read with a web browser.  To download the .shk files (which
the .txt files describe), simply change http to ftp and .txt to .shk in the
URL box, then hilight the .shk file and right-click (click and hold on a
Mac) and select save link.

Good luck!

DSK2FILE will disk image a 5.25" disk which can then be sent to the
PC via a terminal program at much higher than 300 baud (9600bps is
more like it for the IIc).