Re: How do you convert ][ files?

[shack@crash.cts.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <1994Apr27.205335.63015@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>,
Jay Vidheecharoen  <jvidhee@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> wrote:
>Lucky for me, I still have my beloved Apple ][gs and a zillion ][e games..
>What is the step-by-step method for getting files onto my Mac? I want to
>try and get Ultima I to work on the emulator.. possibly Prince of Persia
>(which is a ][e version already on a 3.5" disk). I still don't understand
>how you could copy apple dos 3.3 files onto a prodos disk via the GS
>Finder. Could someone explain what to do?

First of all, the emulator only supports 5.25 disks. The way you convert disks
is to read the disk sector by sector starting at track 0 sector 0 and going
up to track 34 sector 15. You write the data into a file in this precise order.
The emulator comes with some BASIC program that reads disks and transfers the
data through a serial connection, or so it says. I don't use DOS for anything
useful so I wrote an assembly program for ProDOS to do the same thing. Since
my IIgs and Mac are networked I just save the file directly on a server volume.
One obvious thing to mention is that only non protected disks will convert.
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