Re: Converting disk images to floppies....

[Ronny Svedman <rosv4119@student.uu.se>]

Mad Harry wrote:
> 
>   It seems to be much easier to make an image of a floppy, than it is
> to make a floppy from an image.  So, I guess the question is, is there
> an easier way to get disk images written back to floppy?  My brother
> and I spent a good 8 hours trying to find programs that would do it,
> but we were able to only frustrate ourselves.  It's really depressing
> to have a bunch of disk images and no way to put them on floppies to
> run on an Apple //e.  I guess it wouldn't bother me so much had my //e
> included the usual set of ProDOS disks that shipped with //e's in the
> mid 80's, but I got nothing on floppy with this used system.  Of
> course, I'm also frustrated with myself for being unable to remember
> any of my Applesoft knowledge.  I used to be a fairly decent
> programmer, a decade ago.  Oh well, I finally got a //e of my own, and
> I can't remember how to program it, let alone not being able to save
> my work at this point.  I suppose I'll be able get my brother, who has
> a bunch of Apple's, to format a disk or two for me to build from, but
> that does nothing for the dilemma of having images that I can run in
> an emulator, but that's not the same as running it on an Apple.

its not very complicated to make disks  from .dskImages.
you just need a PC, a modem cable, that fits between your PC and your
apple, a serial card in the Apple of course, and the ADT package.

The ADT package is available from the Asimov archives, and comes with
detailed instructions on how to transfer itself to an AppleII floppy. 
You need one formatted floppy, in DOS 3.3 format.

I have successfully transferred a lot of nice stuff, that I've found on
various archives, and there has practically never been any problems.  I
run the super serial card at 19200bps.

This is once the ADT program is running on both ends, when you do the
initial transfer you need to set it at 300 and use line spacing in order
to get it to work without overflowing the Apple.

You could also look at the following URL:
http://geta.life.uiuc.edu/~badger/apple2.html

good luck in getting your nostalgia trip, and if you run into problems,
don't hesitate to drop me a mail.

Best  regards;
Ronny Svedman