Re: Copy II PC Option brd read Apple floppies?

[russotto@ariel.ct.picker.com (Matthew Russotto)]

In article <DH0vtp.1As@pts.mot.com
} kburtch@pts.mot.com writes:

}

}I read some time ago that there is a way, maybe a program, to read an

}Apple ][ floppy on a PC with a Copy II PC Option board. I didn't save

}the post, as I didn't think I'd ever even _see_ a Copy II PC Option

}board. I was wrong... I just got one at a local Ham-Fest, and I skimmed

}through the manual... mostly just information on copying protected

}software and reading Mac floppies. (yes, 800k and 400k) It will read

}5.25" floppies too, and it even mentions the Apple ][, but no software

}is included for this, and no instruction on reading Apple ][ floppies.

}(just a note about the Apple ][ using the same GCR encoding as the Mac)

}I know that the ProDOS format is very similar to the Mac format, but

}most of my floppies are DOS 3.3...

Prodos and DOS 3.3 use the same low level format.  You just want to read them
in soft sector order rather than block order.  Without knowing the API to the
option board, I can't tell you how to do that.