Re: Making Apple II or C64 floppies with PC 5.25" drive?

[Brian Sturk <bsturk@news1.news.adelphia.net>]

> I recently obtained some old 5 1/4-inch floppy drives for PCs. If I
> install one in my PC, is there some Windows utility which will let me
> use it to write data onto it in a way that'll be readable by Apple II
> or Commodore 64 (or 128) computers? More specifically, given this drive
> and a blank floppy and a disk image file of an old 8-bit game, will I
> be able to write the image onto the floppy such that it'll boot the old
> computer it was made for?

Hi there,

The only utility I've seen like that was for TI/994a disk images if I remember
correctly and it was written in QBASIC.

You may want to look into a 'Catweasel' for writing apple ][ and c64 disks.  As
the other poster mentioned, it's much easier using the PC as a slave, i.e.
Starcommander-X1541 and ADT for the apple.

hth,
~brian

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