Re: A "NEW" old AppleII/e User with lots of questions ...

[wyanttr@spoc.dnet.dupont.com (Tom Wyant)]

<frank_s@lise.physik.tu-berlin.de> writes:
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> 1.) Where do I find Apple II archive sites? Is there any
      list available?
Sure is! Nathan Mates publishes the FAQs for this group the 
first of the month. Can't wait? see 
http://www.visi.com/~nathan/a2/index.html where he keeps the 
list online. In fact, the FAQ has a fair amount to say 
about all these questions.

Don't have access to WWW? Try ground.isca.uiowa.edu, 
apple2.caltech.edu, and even support.apple.com for OS 
software.

> 2.) What kind of public domain terminal programs do exist?
If you mean freeware, try Kermit. It's a little flakey, and 
it's slow, but the price is right.

> 3.) Is there a program to read/write/format Apple DOS 3.3
      disks on PC's?
I'd be curious about that one myself.

> 4.) Where can I get the program "shrinkit"?
Any of the FTP sites. You can even bootstrap yourself into it 
fairly easily, since there's a version in an EXEC file that 
deposits the code into memory; then you just save to disk

> 5.) How can I get Disk images of my Apple II disks?
If you had a IIGS, you could use a program called asimov (not 
to be confused with the FTP site asimov) for 5.25" diskettes. 
For 3.5" the Macintosh disk image copier works, but of course 
you don't have a Mac :-(. See the answer to (3) above.

> 6.) What is the best (most compatible) Apple II emulator on
      the PC?
See the comp.emulators.apple2 newsgroup.

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