Re: Copying Apple Diskettes

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Timbley replied:

>"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
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>> Unless you are capable and willing to do a lot of driver development,
>> the CatWeasle is not ready for Apple II prime time.
>>
>> That was true a few years ago, and nothing has happened in the
>> last few years to change that situation.
>>
>> It would be great to have an integrated, GUI-based CatWeasle
>> solution supporting Apple II disks under Win2K, Linux, etc.,
>> but unless someone is interested enough to do it, it won't
>> happen.
>>
>> -michael
>
>Do you know for a fact that no driver has been developed since then?  There
>are Mac 800K disk drivers - would those work for Prodos 16 disks, I wonder?

I couldn't find anything less than a year ago.  Maybe someone has
done something wonderful since.

Mac 800K disk formats are not _exactly_ Apple II 800K formats,
but they are close enough that it would probably work.  Then
the question is what do you get out?  A DiskCopy image?

-michael

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