Re: Hardware musings

["mdj" <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>]

Greg Andrzejewski wrote:

> Exactly. ADT is great, but how many new PC's these days even come with
> serial ports? Then there's folks like me, who just could never get ADT to
> work. I had the serial link going, dumped the hex that containted ADT and
> DOS 3.3, but ADT would always hang on me. I've been following the recent
> updates to both ADT and the host program and it looks like some of the
> issues I experienced may have been corrected. Despite the fact that I have
> since acquired better ways to move data around, I still see the value in a
> Disk ][ USB.

I do too, and hear you. My current PC's lack of a real parallel port
was troublesome for me, until I located a PCI parallel port card that
was Linux compatible (USB ones are useless for FPGA dev boards).

I wonder though, considering the cost of such a device, whether most
people who would like one won't opt for a CFFA card or SuperDrive
controller, or some other comparably simple solution that offers better
functionality on the Apple II end...

> Reading this thread, it seems that copy protection is and will always be
> best defeated using a real Apple II. So why not make a device that
> writes/makes images of unprotected (normal) floppies? It would be a quick
> and foolproof way to not only copy whole disks, but also sneakernet files
> around.

Except that many of us actually want to preserve the copy protection,
not defeat it

Matt