Re: Creating Disk Images

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

Deth (deth@magna.com.au) wrote:
: Hey all,
:              Downstairs Ive got a pretty rare piece of hardware (or so it 
: seems) I bought back in about 1987. Its called a Logo Trackstar. It's an IBM 
: compatible machine (XT i think) but it has a special card in it that allows 
: all apple software to be run from the normal IBM drives. Does anyone know if I 
: can use this to make disk images straight from apple disks on this machine to 
: use on my emulator on my 486?? If so...where can i get the program. Thanks.

Wow!  I've heard of that board!  As I recall, you can run standard A][
software using the IBM-type drive, but certain copy-protection schemes
require things that the IBM drives can't do (half-tracking comes to
mind...), but the card lets you hook up a Disk ][.

Hmmm...Theoretically, you ought to be able to hook the Trackstar up to
your 80486 machine and use the emulator that came with it, and not even
bother with disk images.  In theory, the answer to your question SHOULD be
"yes", but it all depends on whether you can transfer data to and from the
native OS while the Trackstar is running.  It's been a long time since I
saw one!

--Dave Althoff, Jr.
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