Re: Transfering Disk Images from PC to Apple II

["Josiah" <com.yahoo@chibivash81>]

Thanks for the great explaination! I saved the post for later reference.

At the moment I don't have any DOS disks for The Apple II. :( The only disk
that came with it was a Garfield paint program. I have a couple of Apple II
disks mixed in with my C64 disks as well. As I mentioned in another post in
this thread, there's a local shop that sells old computer stuff. Their
hardware is much too expensive, according to their online price list.
However, they offer freeware software for a variety of systems on their
respective disk type for $4 each. They have one called "Pronto DOS" (is that
what ProDOS stands for?) for Apple II. I may have to get a copy of that from
them to start with at least. I was hoping that Apple II drives could somehow
be connected to PCs much like Commdore 1541 drives can by the x1541 cables.
At least there is a "somewhat" easy solution that doesn't cost too much.

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> It was terribly complex for me for some reason. I blame user error on it.
I
> goofed several times
>
> First, you obtain a super erial (or compatible) card for the Apple II. The
> SSC needs to be in slot 2. You then set the baud rate and other settings
to
> something low to start off with. I chose 300 baud, I probably could have
> gone higher. You set the SSC to "terminal" and fire up a terminal program
on
> a PC. Set its settings to the same ones you set on the SSC. Type "IN#2" on
> the Apple without the quotes and start the connection on the PC side.
> Anything you type on the PC should show up on the Apple. A regular
staright
> through serial cable cna be used when the SS is set to "terminal". A 25
pin
> to 9 pin adapter will be needed somewhere
>
> Once you have that working, download ADT and paste the sourcecode into the
> PC terminal. It will type out the source on the Apple and save it to a
disk
> (lets hope you have a bootable DOS or ProDOS disk). You can then exit the
> terminal, run the program, and transfer whole disks across the serial
link.
> You might want to pick up some spare disks for this.
>
> I'll admit a lot of this isn't documented in one place and its very
> frustrating to figure out on your own. The problems I ran into included
> cards being in the wrong slots, a bad cable, and a lack of a bootable disk
> with free space. The SSC needs to be in slot 2 mainly because thats where
> evryone else puts it. The disk controller should be in slot 6 since thats
> where mostdisk software looks for it. I had mine in 7 and it worked fine,
> but I had to modify the BSAVE command so it saved to slot 7, disk 1.