Re: NEED COPY II PARAMETERS

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

JGreer4350 writes ...
> 
> I need to back up some apple II software and need a parameter list for copy II
> PC.  I would buy docs - I have an orig disk but nothing else.
> Jim

     It does not seem likely that a program named "Copy II PC" is going
to be much good at copying protected Apple II diskettes. (Doesn't the
"PC" mean it is supposed to run on a PC?)  Usually, Apple II users use
Copy II Plus (v7.1 - v8.3) or LockSmith v6.0. 

     Computist magazine used to publish parms for Copy II Plus and other
A2 copiers every few issues. If you have access to a collection of
Computist issues, you will find several parms listings in (roughly)
issues 1-30.

     Eventually, Copy II Plus included parm files on-disk and allowed
"auto copying". You can download a disk image of Copy II Plus which
includes parms for many old wares from Asimov or one of the Asimov
mirrors ...

Asimov- #1 archive of Apple II games and utilities in
  emulator DSK and file formats; plus emulators and emu info 
  ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/

Asimov Mirrors- sites which mirror Asimov
  ftp://apple.cabi.net/pub/apple_II/
  ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/apple_II/
  ftp://mirror.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/

For example, try ...

ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/images/utility/disk_utils/


     An alternative to backing up your copy-protected originals is to
download deprotected disk images of favorites and convert these to
diskette form. The Asimov sites and Uni-kl.de maintain many oldies in
disk image form. Uni.kl.de's images are at ...

ftp://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/apple2/disk_images/



     The FAQs files Csa2T1TCOM.txt and Csa2T2TCOM.txt include
information about transferring files from your PC or Mac to your Apple2
as well as info about converting disk images to diskette form. You can
find the FAQs files at ...


for Viewing via an FTP program or for downloading ...
 ftp://ground.ecn.uiowa.edu/apple2/Faqs/

for on-line perusing via Netscape, etc. ...
 http://www.grin.net/~cturley/A2.FAQs.and.INFO/CSA2.FAQs/
 ftp://apple.cabi.net/pub/applegs/FAQs.and.INFO/A2.Csa2.FAQs/



Rubywand