Re: Apple //e emulator from Simtel

[tombaker@bumetb.bu.edu (Thomas A. Baker)]

In article <1993Apr21.185523.1@uqvax.cc.uq.oz.au> mail_brock@uqvax.cc.uq.oz.au writes:
>I found an emulator on the Simtel CD-ROM archive that apparently perfectly
>emulates an Apple //e under MS-DOS.  The format it uses to represent the disk
>in the Apple's drive is a 143k+ (exactly the size of a DOS 3.3 disk) binary
>file, apparently a byte-for-byte image of the disk.
>
>This begs the question: any ideas for transferring an Apple //e disk to an
>MS-DOS file?

1) If all you have is the disk, you gotta get some hardware, like a SuperDrive
   or something, maybe on a Mac.  The realistic thing is to get a Apple II of
   some sort, and transfer it over on a connection.

   There's a couple of ways to port over.  Traditionally, you can use
   SkrinkIt to make a file out of the disk, then xmodem it over.  On
   the pc, use nulib to make a .DSK file out of it, and you then run
   a program named 'mapper' to reshuffle the sectors to Apl2em-2 format.

2) Get the group alt.emulators.ibmpc.apple2, and if your machine doesn't
   get it, request the system manager to get that group.

3) Ftp over to wilbur.stanford.edu, directory tree pub/apple2.  Support
   for the emulator hass been great, but wilbur had a crash recently and you
   will want to keep checking as the software gets restored.

4) The emulator FAQ is available on wilbur, and appears in a.e.i.a2 
   from time to time.

tombaker