Re: Ap2222pc question

[Bill Clinton <president@whitehouse.gov>]

I made the cable and typed in the Apple II loader according to the FM
and it works like a charm. All you need is a dos 3.3 boot disk.
It's very fast -- same principle as a Laplink parallel cable. The speed
limit is actually due to the use of RWTS on the Apple II vs high speed
disk writes (same as using COPYA vs Locksmith 6.0).
It will not transfer copy-protected disks but I've found that everything
I wanted has been cracked a long time ago by lots of people. This is the
method I would recommend going directly from PC to Apple II. The main
drawback is that you cannot have the joystick and the ap2222pc cable
plugged in at the same time. I made a custome cable to go from the 16pin
socket to the back of the Apple II so it is easy to swap cables.

arn-py at pacbell dot net

phoenyx wrote:
> 
> Chris wrote:
> 
> > >If you've got a cable, just use ADT and transfer one of the
> > >Dos 3.3 master images from the net. Standard disks are 35
> > >tracks but many publishers used non-standard formats, thus
> > >.NIB files were used to store them. .PO is a slightly different
> > >format (supposed to be anyway) from .DSK where .DSK is
> > >considered to be the standard. You will find mostly the .dsk
> > >images on the net.
> >
> > Ap2222pc uses a different type of cable, between the parallel port of
> > the PC and the game port of the Apple (16 pin DIP type).  You hook up
> > the cable, boot with a Dos disk, enter a few lines of assembly code
> > and then it creates an Apple disk for you to use in future sessions.
> > No dip switch configuration, no additional terminal software, no speed
> > settings, etc.
> >
> > But anyway, thanks for the info on the disk formats.  I understood
> > that the disks were done differently somehow, but was unclear on
> > whether or not the different formats had different numbers of tracks.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > --Chris
> 
> That's the same as Apple Oasis then. It has some nice utilities
> which support this connection. One is a disk Server which
> allows storage on a PC hard drive in A4W format, I'm not
> sure about HDV format though, since my //c doesn't have the
> right connector. If you try it it has a type in program for the II
> located in the help file.
> 
> Phoenyx