Re: 13-Sector disk images

[sirghoul@optonline.net]

Just finding this message now, so I may be re-inventing your answer.......

Have you tried using SST in conjunction with ADT and Ciderpress??

John.

On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 11:53:15 -0700 (PDT), Nels Bruckner <nelsb@comcast.net> wrote:

>On Aug 23, 11:36�am, "Bill Buckels" <bbuck...@mts.net> wrote:
>> "Nels Bruckner" <ne...@comcast.net> wrote in message
>>
>> 98005091-829b-4ad0-bc20-9c39b33758ea@v16g2000prc.googlegroups.com">news:98005091-829b-4ad0-bc20-9c39b33758ea@v16g2000prc.googlegroups.com...
>>
>> >I'm trying to get a physical disk made of the DOS 3.2 Master... or any
>> >13-sector disk made from a 13-sector disk image on the PC
>> <snip>
>> >Any thoughts?
>>
>> Hi Nels,
>>
>> My thoughts may be less than helpful but here goes...
>>
>> I am anxiously awaiting my Microdrive from Reactive Micro with the CF card
>> that I can plug into my PC and copy my diskimages then walk over to my real
>> enhanced Apple //e and plug it in and then make physical disks if I want.
>>
>> Here is something you may want to look at:
>>
>> http://www.apple2.org.za/mirrors/ground.icaen.uiowa.edu/Mirrors/uni-k...
>>
>> >Paul Schlyter
>> >From u...@kth.se Tue May 11 03:47:35 1993
>> >Subject: Re: DOS Program or Utility to read Apple II floppies
>> >Sorry, no such program exists. The MFM floppy disk unit on the PC is
>> >unfortunately unable to read the GCR encoded Apple II disks. To read Apple
>> >II disks on a PC, a special hardware addition (a disk controller able to
>> >deal with GCR coding) is needed.
>>
>> This may not be the case today but it is a place to start. Paul went on to
>> say:
>>
>> >DO you have an Apple II available? THe easiest way to get the data to the
>> >PC will then probably be to hook up a serial cable between the Apple and
>> >the PC, and then transfer the data through the serial cable.
>>
>> This is what I used-to do and when I resurrected my Apple II stuff, I
>> grabbed an Apple //e with a super serial card, then started looking at what
>> other people were doing and breathed a sigh of relief when I found CF cards
>> available for both Apple //e and C64.
>>
>> I think this might be something you want to do as well.
>>
>> Bill
>
>     Thanks for the respose Bill.
>
>     I have ReactiveMicro's IDE/CF drive card, and it is awesome.  It
>comes with a program called Disk Maker that runs on the ][ and does a
>great job of writing disk images to physical disks.  ADTPro also does
>this trick very nicely, and I use it whenever I don't want to bother
>with switching CF cards.  However, neither of these methods support 13-
>sector 5.25" images (i.e. .D13).  I want to transfer and write 13-
>sector images.  ADT-13 appears to be designed for just this purpose,
>but won't write to floppies for me.
>
>     To be clear, I'm not interested in converting the data from a 13-
>sector disk image to a 16-sector image and writing that to a physical
>disk (CiderPress does a great job of this).  Rather, I'm interested in
>nostalgicly booting and exploring the 13-sector DOS images in their
>native environment (via Boot13).
>
>     --Nels

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