Re: Using 1.2M floppy disks

[mnementh@netcom.com (David R. Villegas)]

ctkwan@csd.hku.hk (Doug Kwan ~{9XUq5B~}) wrote:
>Thanks for all of you for your replies. I just want to know if I can
>preserve my old Apple ][ games. It is possible for the 5 1/4" floppy to be
>obsolete in less than 10 year from now. I can move some of the apple ][
>stuff to 3 1/2 floppy but it is difficult for games. I have quite
>a number of games disk images for emulator. I'm sure I can run them
>on emulators 20 or 30 years from now. However, I really want to run
>them on a real Apple.  

For games, you can remove the copy protection, make a Shrinkit disk archive
of the deprotected games, and save the archive on a 3.5" floppy or any other
form of storage medium.  When your 5.25" floppies die, if a better Apple
emulator doesn't exist, you can unpack the archive back to a 5.25" floppy.