Re: A wishful thought?

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

mystix@direct.ca@direct.ca wrote:

>usrights@aol.com (US Rights) writes:
>
>>>If you want to read Apple // disks in your PC you can already do it. Just
buy
>>>a Catweasel board 
>>
>>
>>Has anyone bought one of these? I wouldn't mind trying them if they work half
>>decently
>
>I looked though the websites posted and the only thing they've stated for sure
>is that it can read single sided 5.25 IIe disks, which I presume means DOS 3.3
and
>ProDOS. I can't determine whether or not it can read 800K or 1.44MB ProDOS
disks.
>However the capability seems to be the software part so it could be possible.

Any PC with a regular floppy drive can read 1.44MB ProDOS
disks with a program called ProCopy.  It is on the ground ftp
server.

>I'd like to know if anyone has tried this product. It wouldn't be of much use
to me
>if it doesn't support 800K disks.

If it supports Mac 800k disks, it SHOULD support Apple II
800k disks.  The encoding is the same.  Just the file
system is different.  That means the hardware on the
Catweasel is capable of reading any Apple II or IIGS 3.5
disk.  It just depends if the software supplied can go the
extra step of decoding ProDOS, but I can't see why not
since IIe 5.25 disks can be read.  Unless the software is
so dumb that it does not let you mix and match.