Re: Help! 5.25 disk "images" to 800k 3.5?

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Miles Buck <madmax@aracnet.com> wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I recently acquired an Apple //c+ (the one with the 3.5 drive) that had
>no software with it..Is there a way to get a disk image of a 5.25 disk
>(like from Asimov) and use Bernie ][ or Gus(or any emulator) to mount
>that image, and somehow copy what's on the "disk" to a real 3.5 inch
>Prodos-formatted disk, that I may put it in the //c+ and will work???
>Maybe there's a utility for this??? ANY help is greatly appreciated

There IS a program called DOS 3.3 Launcher that will run disk images
on a real Apple II.  Sadly, these disk images are not 100% compatible
with the .dsk format (I tried to interchange several and they ALMOST
worked).  You'll have to run the .dsk "disks" using Bernie, then with
DOS 3.3 Launcher running on Bernie, you can image the images...
once you got D33L format images, just save them to a ProDOS 3.5"
disk, take it to your IIc+, and run them with DOS 3.3 Launcher...

DOS 3.3 Launcher can be found at the liquify ftp server...
http://liquify.isca.uiowa.edu/8/ground/apple2 but if you need it on
disk, I am pretty sure Shareware Solutions II sells it...look for it at
the listing on http://www.crl.com/~joko ...

However, the Asimov stuff is not really that great or modern...with
a great late model Apple II like the IIc+, you should be looking for
legitimate software at ftp://ground.isca.uiowa.edu/ ... which is of
high quality and modernity!  Ground, for example, has software like
Angel, an 8-bit program that creates AND decodes .zip archives!
Can't find THAT on Asimov now can you?  What about an 8-bit
program to read Macintosh disks?  Look for A2FX on the ground
ftp server!