Re: ADT for the Comm Card, plus a new utility for .DSK image files

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Paul Schlyter writes ...
> 
> In article <392511D4.CDA57EBA@swbell.net>,
> Rubywand  <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote:
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> > A checksum run on the two ADT.CC files showed a difference.
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> 
> There's no bug in either of them I know about.  Here's the story of why
> I produced two different ADT.CC:
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> After having produced what I believe is a copy of my earlier, lost,
> source of ADT-CC, I decided to be a little fancy: on the setup screen
> I changed an ocurrences of "SSC" to " CC", and I also made an
> indication that the CC always ran at its hi speed -- that cosmetic
> change didn't exist in the earlier ADT.CC.
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> 
> And they're both working, as both you and I have noticed.  Yyes, I
> tested transferring some disks with the new version, comarping the
> transfers to transfers made with the old version, before I posted
> the source of ADT.CC
>

     Thanks for explaining the difference in the versions.


 
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> My only Apple II disks which remain to be transferred are a few
> 13-sector disks, plus some "copy protected" disks.  They'd probably
> work fine as "nib" disk images -- but does anyone know a piece of
> software which works like ADT but which transfers any kind of disk,
> and produces a "nib" disk image on the PC side?  Yes, I expect that
> it'll require the Super Serial card, and will need modification to
> work with the Comm Card, so it's preferable if assembly source
> code is available on the Apple II side.
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     For the 13-sector diskettes, have you tried using Muffin to convert them
to 16-sector diskettes?

     I do not know of any util package which converts protected disks to .nib
on the PC-- i.e. a sort of ADT package that makes .nib files. The problem
would be on the Apple II side. Some protection schemes require special Copy
II+ (Locksmith, etc.) parms and/or a Computist-style controller in order to
produce a deprotected copy or a .nib.

     Most likely, you will need to use SST to create .nib files or check
Computist for deprotection info.



Rubywand