Re: Apple II Floppies

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <33168569-2cc3-4258-a31c-9a94bfb1508d@m34g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>,
rhohler  <rick.hohler@gmail.com> wrote:
>I am currently in the process of transferring my Apple II disk
>collection (around 1600) to my PC.  I've been using ADTPro which is
>one of the best programs ever.  I have Pascal, DOS, PRODOS, and CP/M
>formatted floppies.  My question is: Will ADTPro do the job of
>transferring all of these formats?  Or do I need to wait until a card
>(EDD clone) is available to "bit copy" (non DOS - pascal and CP/M
>formatted) the floppies and transfer them?  And what about 13 vs. 16
>sector disks?

ADT will transfer any 16-sector floppy disk which isn't copy protected.
I.e. it'll work fine for all these formats.  ADT doesn't care about
the format, it merely transfers all the sectors, one by one.

Currently, ADT doesn't transfer 13 sector floppies.  You could probably
patch ADT to make it work with 13 sector floppies though, by making it
attempt to transfer only the first 13 sectors of each track.  And
then of course you must run ADT on top of DOS 3.2 rather than DOS 3.3

>Additionally, I've already noticed about 15% of the 80 5.25" disks
>I've transferred appear to be bad.  I guess for 20+ year old floppies
>this is be expected.
>
>Thanks
>Rick


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