Re: IIe to OS9 Emulator Conversion

["Polymorph" <polymorph69@hotmail.com>]

On Feb 6, 4:03 am, "radicalradial" <minerva...@gmail.com> wrote:
> A friend has asked me to help move her data and programs from her
> Apple IIe to an emulator (probably Catakig) on her slot-loading fruit-
> colored iMac running OS 9. The Apple IIe has one 5.25 floppy drive.
> She has about 70 of the 5.25 floppies to convert.
>
> Could anyone offer some suggestions on what might be the cheapest,
> fastest and easiest way to do this? Since in the real world there are
> three qualities (cheap, fast and high quality) of which we can pick
> any two but not all three, I'm sure that there are any number of ways
> to skin this cat. At the moment, keeping the solution inexpensive
> seems to be the most important criterion.
>
> TIA for your help.

Not being all that familiar with Macs myself, if it has a serial port
and the //e has a Super Serial Card, then the cheapest (and one of the
fastest) methods would probably be hooking up the //e via a null modem
serial connection. This can also be achieved using a straight thru
cable and the appropriate setting on the SSC (jumper block pointing
down).

Your best bet would be to check out the A2 FAQ here:
http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/Csa2T1TCOM.html#000

And use ADTPro (which is an excellent update to ADT) here:
http://adtpro.sourceforge.net/

The ADTPro page also has helpful guides on how to get up and running
with ADTPro, so make sure you check there first.

If you have any questions, I'm sure that there will be plenty of
people here to help you with the setup.

cheers,
-p