Re: ADTgs issues

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <4537e938$0$18832$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net>,
Linards Ticmanis  <ticmanis@gmx.de> wrote:


> Paul Schlyter wrote:
> 
>> Actually, 13-sector Apple CP/M used physical interleaving too.... yes,
>> there was a 13-sector version of SoftCard CP/M for a short time after
>> its initial release (I still have a 13 sector SoftCard CP/M master
>> disk).  
> 
> Hello Paul,
> 
> erm... just wondering and asking very nicely, could you maybe make an
> image of that disk? I've never seen that one available anywhere and your
> statement just tickled my collecting fancy very much...
> 
> Do you have ADT13? If not I can send it to you, the hardware
> requirements are the same as for standard ADT.

My Apple II does not fullfill the hardware requirements for standard ADT
since it lacks a Super Serial Card.  It has the older Apple Comm Card.
Therefore, some years ago I modified the Apple side client of ADT so that
it worked with the Comm Card, and then I transferred a bunch of 16-sector
disks to .dsk images - this Comm Card version of the Apple side ADT client
is now included in many distributions of ADT.

Does ADT13 have a Comm Card version of its Apple II client?  If not,
such a client must somehow be created, or else I won't be able to
transfer that disk using ADT.  Or perhaps I could temoprarily patch
the 13-sector RWTS on the Apple II so that it returns sector 13 when
one attempts to read sectors 14-16 and then transfer the disk image
using the standard ADT16 - the redundant sectors of the disk image can
always be removed afterwards.

> Otherwise a .nib image will do the job as well. You should be able to go
> the usual SST route. Or just send me the images of the two disk sides
> that result from the SST run. I'll be able to do the rest.

:-) ....I've never done that because I though it appeared too awkward...
And I have very few copy-protected Apple II disks -- I always despised
copy protection.


However, this will take some time.  My Apple II resides in my country
house, and in winter I go there every 3rd weekend or so (usually to do
other things than dabble with my Apple II :-).  But eventually I'll
get this done in one way or another, since some day I'd like the few
13-sector Apple II disks I have transferred to disk images too.

-- 
----------------------------------------------------------------
Paul Schlyter,  Grev Turegatan 40,  SE-114 38 Stockholm,  SWEDEN
e-mail:  pausch at stockholm dot bostream dot se
WWW:     http://stjarnhimlen.se/