Re: Need advice on Applesoft conversion

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Joe Kiefer writes ...
> 
> My A2 software is not copy protected and I can LIST the basic program.  I
> wonder if it would work to just print the listing and use my scanner and OCR
> on the PC to read in the program to a txt file.  If I do that what else to I
> need to do to apply the emulator?
 ....

     If you can get the program into standard PC Text file form on the PC,
there is at least one way to get it onto a disk image.

     You can use a shareware utility named "Dsk_in". It creates a .dsk disk
image file which includes your text as a DOS Text file-- i.e. you have a new
disk image which has just the DOS Text file.

     You can find Dsk_in (and Dsk_out-- does the reverse of Dsk_in) plus
directions on ACN Tarnover at ftp://tarnover.dyndns.org/cabi/Utilities/ . The
file is DskInOut.zip. (Use WinZIP to extract the files.)

     Dsk_in seems to run fine from the DOS window under Win95. Here is an
example command line for getting a disk image named "mynew.dsk" from a PC Text
file named "prog.txt":

dsk_in mtu t prog.txt mynew.dsk

The above assumes that prog.txt is in the same directory as dsk_in.


     Once you have the disk image, you can start your emulator and boot a DOS
3.3 dsk-- for example, you could boot TnilUtil.dsk (available in the same
folder as DskInOut.zip).

     Go to the BASIC prompt and enter NEW to clear out the current program.

     Swap in the new dsk (mynew.dsk or whatever) with your Text. Do a CATALOG
and you should see just one file named "FILE".

     Enter EXEC FILE

     This should 'type in' your program. Now, you should be able to LIST the
program and do a SAVE MYPROGRAM to save it to dsk.



Rubywand