Re: disk transfer methods?

[wbdesnoy@acs2.acs.ucalgary.ca (Byron Desnoyers Winmill)]

Keatah@worldnet.att.net (Keatah@worldnet.att.net) wrote:

: I was thinking something along the lines of a super serial card and
: using proterm 3.1 to send the files..Now what do I use to generate the
: file? I also want to use these images with emulators and have them
: readily available for transfer back to the //e at "moment's notice" so
: to speak. Tell me what you folks have done in the past and what's the
: most efficient way to deal with this project. Are there websites that
: offer a tutorial on this? I just don't want to fuck everything up and
: make a mess.

The super serial card and ADT would be the easiest way to get these disks
to your PC, then back to your Apple II on a moments notice.  What this
program will do is to read your disk and save it as a DSK file on your PC
(with the assistance of the serial card).  It will also take DSK files from
your PC and save them on your Apple II.

The other advantage of ADT is that it is very fast.  (I do not know about
ProTerm, since it is priced well beyond my reach, but Kermit is rather
slow on the Apple II.)

Now it won't take care of the protected software.  From a discussion on
this newsgroup about a week back though, it *may* be possible to do this
if you can find a program which creates nibble order diskettes.  To my
knowledge ADT does not.

ADT is available for the PC on Asimov and its mirrors.  For the Macintosh
version (since the copy on Asimov is corrupt), just e-mail me.  The address
is in the header.

Byron.