Re: ProDOS Volume Emulation? (for K12 MECC)

[Mike T <quazar@dcnet2000.com>]

As Jon mentioned, Apple Oasis (Windows) and ApplePC (MsDos) can
handle your needs. I think Apple Oasis will probably be the best
bet since it also includes utilities for manipulating the disk
images and files and it is one of the few which support serial
i/o that actually works. This means access to both printer and
modem or other serial hardware. It is however, shareware for
$20 I think. This is probably the most configurable emulator I
have ever seen.

ApplePC is free, but unsupported as the author has not answered
mail from anyone for years. It's primary benefit is the use of
full screen output for all video modes. The hires and double
hires are very realistic. In my experience, it is a little buggy
but not too bad. There is an annoying bug in the keyboard
routines which will sometimes return the last key press instead
of the current one.

Both emulators support joystick, speed variance, disk selection
sound, 64 & 128k base memory and aux memory which emulates the
Applied Engineering memory cards. Apple Oasis can access up to
1 meg and ApplePC about 300 kb depending on how much Dos memory
is free.

As for the compressed disk images, the only one I've ever seen
with this support is for Linux or other Unix oriented systems.
All in all, it is a fairly good emulator but still a bit buggy.
Considering the small size of the Apple II disk images, space
shouldn't be too much of a problem. It may also be possible to
use software which compresses and decompresses files on the fly.
Although I have heard of such software, I have no info on it.

I hope this gives you enough information. You may want to use
both, depending on the software to run.

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Thank you for your time and interest. I hope it was helpful
or at least interesting.

Phoenyx,

Apple2 user since March 1984

Links to Phoenyx's pages:
preferred..... http://zip.to/Phoenyx_A2
alternate..... http://www.tinyangeldesigns.com/Apple2