Re: PC -> Apple //e transfer

[dalloff@gcfn.org (Dave Althoff)]

Kragen Sitaker (kragen@dnaco.net) wrote:
: In article <37EAC29C.323915C4@pdq.net>,
: Zerblinitzky  <zerblinitzky@yahoo.com> wrote:
: >Hrm. I'd do that, sounds easy, except for one little thing: I have no disks
: >to boot it with, how would I get the emulator on the //e? Reading the FAQ
: >(Which also said it couldn't be done, but I choose not to believe that until
: >I have beaten my head against the problem for a few months) I saw something
: >about null-modem connections. Any ideas, could I do that without any software
: >on the //e side?

: I seem to remember seeing a 'virtual disk' system on some guy's web
: site; lets you hook your //e's game port up to a PC's serial port and
: have 'virtual disks' that consist of storage on the PC.  He had code to
: type into the monitor on the page.

: Basically, as long as the ROM monitor works, you can run any software
: at all on the //e.  You just have to type it in first.  :)

: [disclaimer: this is theory]

But it's good theory.  I've got a file which contains a dump of 48k DOS
3.3.  Just "type in" the file, call its entry point at $9DBF, and you're
in business.  In theory, at least.  The trick is to get another computer
to do the typing for you!  That's easy enough to do with a null modem
connection and a Super Serial Card.

I actually tried this once, and it did, in fact, work!

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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