Re: Apple II Floppies

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <c85d140b-6ac3-4f38-a907-b66bad9e58c5@b1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,
magnusfalkirk  <dean.phares@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Mar 24, 4:36 pm, rhohler <rick.hoh...@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?
>>
>> 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
>
>Rick,
>
>About the only thing ADTPro won't copy, as far as I know, is copy
>protected software. So the short answer is no you don't need to wait
>for anything else, just use ADTPro and transfer disks to your PC.

ADT will also fail to transfer non-copy protected 13-sector disks.
However, ADT can probably be modified quite easily to make it handle
13-sector floppies.

>Dean


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