Re: AE PC Transporter Emulator

["Geoff Weiss" <geoff.weiss@a2central.com.remove-zy0-this>]

  To: Bryan Parkoff
If you are looking for a single app that can emulate an Apple II and a PC, then
take a look at MESS.  If you are only looking at a need to read and write to
MS-DOS disks from an Apple II emulator, then you can do that already.  The
concept of MFM and GCR drives (the reason why floppies are incompatible across
platforms) are irrelevant when it comes to disk images.  Pop in a MS-DOS disk
image in the virtual Apple drive and use the GS/OS FST to read the disk.  If
you run into the FST's limitations, then use something like MUG!.

Geoff

 > 
 > "Scott Alfter" <scott@alfter.DIESPAMMERSDIE.us> wrote in message 
 > NsKdnfLerIlpeIvbnZ2dnUVZ_vqpnZ2d@giganews.com">news:NsKdnfLerIlpeIvbnZ2dnUVZ_vqpnZ2d@giganews.com...
 > > In article <4616d126$0$5201$4c368faf@roadrunner.com>,
 > > Bryan Parkoff <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
 > >>    Are you willing to participle and develop AE PC Transporter Emulator 
 > >> for
 > >>the Apple II Emulator?  It is sad that MS-DOS is no longer supported in
 > >>newer version of Windows Vista.  I don't know if claim is true.  To keep
 > >>MS-DOS alive, I would try to find a copy of SuperWorks to work on AE PC
 > >>Transporter Emulator.  There are few 8088 emulator with MS-DOS available,
 > >>but it has to be in AE PC Transporter Emulator, too.
 > >
 > > DOSBox isn't subject to Microsoft's whims:
 > >
 > > http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/
 > >
 > > Since it emulates the 286 and 386 (and it apparently does emulation even
 > > when running on x86), the features it offers would be a superset of what 
 > > the
 > > PC Transporter can do.
 > >
 > > Since the PC Transporter is just a PC/XT-compatible crammed onto a card 
 > > that
 > > fits in an Apple II, I'm not sure what the point would be of emulating it
 > > specifically vs. just going with something like DOSBox.  It's
 > > cross-platform, too, with the current version available for Windows, Mac 
 > > OS
 > > X, Linux, and OS/2, and an older version available for FreeBSD and BeOS.
 > > From a standpoint of running old DOS apps, if you've seen one DOS box,
 > > you've seen them all. :-)
 > 
 > Yes,
 > 
 >     You still can plug AE PC Transporter Emulator into Apple II Emulator. 
 > You can exchange files between MS-DOS and ProDOS on Apple II Emulator.
 > 
 > Bryan Parkoff
 > 
 > 
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