Re: Return of the Apple IIE!

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Michael J Syposs writes ...
> 
> Hi all,
> I've just bought a brand new, Apple IIe card for my mac LC 520.  I
> haven't used an orignal Apple since had to sell my //C about 7 years
> ago.  I loved that machine and miss it every day.  Now, I see all these
> .dsk, .nib, .2mg files on the internet and with all the licenses being
> unsupported, I think that this is all very legal.
> I would like to be able to download many of these images to my Powerbook
> G3, cut them to a CD, read that CD on my LC 520 and transfer the files
> to disk.

     Using CD for file transfers is an interesting idea. Now that CD burners
are so common and CD's are so cheap, it may be a pretty good way to go.


> I don't have a 5.25 or 3.5 disk drive yet, but they are on the way.
> I did a little research and have found that DSKFILE is the way to go for
> transferring these images onto floppy.

     On a //e, yes. The current version of DSK2FILE can handle several image
conversion chores.


> I have that properly installed
> on a prodos hd partition, and things are all ready to go for DSK files.
> I'm still very unsure that I'm doing this right, and have some problems
> getting file types right (I use typechanger and unforkit for the most
> part). Some files that I download still are not seen properly.

     DSK2FILE is not too picky about filetype. (It does not matter whether or
not ProDOS thinks a .dsk file is a disk image.)  Mainly, the .dsk (or .do or
.po) file needs to be uncorrupted. 


> I still
> have no program for IIE that will let me write NIB disk images, and many
> games I'd like are written in that.

     In many cases an image will be in .nib form just to preserve DOS 3.3
volume number. These .nib's can be copied to a .dsk image (via Disk Muncher
running on an emulator).  Then, on your Apple II (or LC A2 Card) the .dsk
image can be transferred to a diskette INITed for the correct volume number.


> Does anybody know any good websites for using the IIE card on the LC?
> I've seen the FAQ but it leaves many of my image conversion and usage
> questions unanswered.  Maybe there is a site that will better explain
> conversion.

     The LC FAQs site is
http://www.mandrake.demon.co.uk/Apple/lc_card_faq.html . You could email the
person who wrote the those FAQs-- Phil Beesley
(beesley@mandrake.demon.co.uk).



> I would only be interested in converted images to disks on
> the IIE side of things, since that is the only place I'll have a 5.25
> drive.
 ....

     There is some information about using/converting disk images in the
newsgroup FAQs at http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/Csa2FLUTILS.html .



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