Re: A 386, a 286, and an Old Apple 2+: Ideas Wanted

[ejrasiel@mothra.syr.EDU (Ethan J. Rasiel)]

In article <93060602@telecom.chi.il.us> Patrick Townson <root@telecom.chi.il.us> writes:

>Bearing in mind that Apple used Microsoft DOS and Microsoft BASIC
>(which they chose to relabel Applesoft BASIC, but no matter), will any
>of the thousands of old Apple diskettes here with BASIC program on
>them *actually run* without a lot of hassle should I figure a way to
>get them off the Apple disks and onto the 386 disks?  (I suppose I
>could use Norton or similar to get the data moved, but is it worth
>the trouble?)   I know stuff that made specific references to the
>machine and was not relocateable won't run, but what about the more
>general stuff?

There is an apple II emulator for the ibm that I think you will find very
interesting.  The file name is apl2em.zip and it can be found on simtel20
in the emulators section.  It is way cool because the programmer made it
by actually using a code dump from apple hardware.  Thus it is a somewhat
complete emulation - for example, typing pr#<whatever> does what is expected.
This emulation works by using a file on your ibm hard drive as if it were the
apple floppy - you have to somehow capture the apple floppy disk to a file
on your pc, which could be done over modem cable. This way, you should be
able to run all your apple software.  I personally can run the apple versions
of karateka, frogger, and some others on my pc, and it works pretty well.
Check it out, and let me know if you succeed in getting it working.

Ethan