Re: 13-Sector disk images

[Nels Bruckner <nelsb@comcast.net>]

On Aug 23, 11:36 am, "Bill Buckels" <bbuck...@mts.net> wrote:
> "Nels Bruckner" <ne...@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> >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