Re: IBM disk images of Apple II software disks

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Dennis Kuhn writes ...
> 
> Greetings!
> 
> I just have one silly question that's probably in some FAQ somewhere,
> but what the heck, I'll give it a shot...
> 
> I have a few Apple II disks lying around the house somewhere, but the
> computer's pretty much gone.  Do I need to use special software on an
> IBM machine to make disk images of these disks?  Or do I need to find
> an Apple II computer, and do some strange sort of disk conversion on
> it?  I guess I mostly want to play some of my old video games after
> discovering a cool emulator on the web, so it's not life-or-death...
> but I'd really like to know.
> 
> Anyone care to field this one?
>

     If you want to play the games which are on your Apple II disks on a
PC via AppleWin or some other popular emmulator, you have a couple of
options.


     One is to convert the disks to .dsk file form on an Apple II and
transfer the .dsk file to your PC. This is the 'strange conversion'
route-- not really all that much trouble, especially with a 128k
enhnaced Apple IIe, a IIc, or a IIgs. Details are supplied in the
CSA2T2TCOM.TXT FAQs file at ...
ftp://ground.ecn.uiowa.edu/apple2/Faqs .

     A possible 'catch' in the above is that your game disks may be
copy-protected. Usually, you will need to de-protect a disk before you
convert it to .dsk form.


     Your best bet is, probably, to look for your favorite games in disk
image form on one of the following ftp sites:

Asimov- #1 archive of Apple II games and utilities in
  emulator DSK and file formats; plus emulators and emu info 
  ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/

Asimov Mirrors- sites which mirror Asimov
  ftp://apple.cabi.net/pub/apple_II/
  ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/apple_II/
  ftp://mirror.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/

Uni-kl.de  Apple2 U. Kaiserslautern-- II/IIgs games, utilities, and
  emulator wares
  ftp://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/apple2/



For example, you could go to ...

ftp://apple.cabi.net/pub/apple_II/images/games/ and check out the
adventure/, rpg/, etc. folder there. Except for .txt files, you should
download practically all files as binary. If you are using Netscape
instead of an FTP program, right-click on the file name and select "Save
Link As" to download & save a file.

     If a file is in plain .dsk form (name ends in ".dsk"), it should be
a ready-to-use disk image which your emmulator will treat like a disk.
Most disk image files are maintained on ftp sites in compressed .dsk.gz
form. If a downloaded file is in .dsk.gz or .zip form, use WinZip to
un-compress it. One way or another, you want to end up with a .dsk file.
If you end up with a .nib file, it will, probably, work okay with the
emulator, too.

 
     

Rubywand