Re: Disk images: from //e to Mac via PC?

[cturley2@aol.com (Cturley2)]

To: mrsparkle@hokkaido.jp (S Robson) AKA - Seth

Concerning your desire to convert your data on 5.25 Apple 
disks for use on another platform, (while Nathan's comments are indeed correct
in theory - with respect to direct conversions from an Apple II to a PC
machine) there is a rather simple method of making the conversions from an
Apple II to a Mac - provided you still have an Apple II computer and can make
disk images of all your 5.25 Apple II disks with the programs available for
such.  Copy II+ v7.1 is one such program that can make disk images of 5.25
Apple II disks.  

You could then put the disk image onto an 800k ProDOS disk and take it to a Mac
computer, insert it and with the MacOS 7.1 or up (having the control panel
program - PC Exchange) you could use one of the many programs for the Mac to
mount the disk image on your Mac desktop as a virtual  5.25 Apple II disk,
click on that virtual  5.25 Apple II disk and then copy each data file to a
folder on your Mac and (depending on the data files format), you could use any
number of conversion programs like ClarisWorks, etc. to convert the data files
to the format you desire to use it with.  

If you then want to port those converted files to the PC, simply format a PC
disk on the Mac. copy those converted files to it and transfer that disk to the
PC for use on the PC machine.

Making such conversions from an Apple II to a PC and then to a Mac might prove
to be a real hassle and beyond your abilities without rare add-on hardware for
the PC - as Nathan pointed out.

I hope this information proves to be of some useful value with your needs.  If
you need any more info or clarification on the proceedures for such conversions
from the Apple II to the Mac without the use of a PC, please don't hesitate to
email me for help.  If however, you can only use a PC, I can't be of any help
with that.

Cheers,
Tom