Re: Question about transfering image file from PC to Apple IIe using ADT

["BLuRry" <brendan.robert@gmail.com>]

> 1. I prefer to use standard serial cable instead of null modem. The
> document/faq said to set the jumper to "terminal" but doesn't tell how
> to set the dip switches. The configuration it gives is for null-modem
> connection:

This isn't a dipswitch setting -- closer to the serial connector on the
card there is a "jumper block" with an arrow on it.  Right now yours is
probably pointing to a label on the card that says "modem".  If you
carefully pull this block out, rotate it 180 degrees, and reinsert it
you will put it in "terminal" mode.  It basically does the same thing
that a null-modem adapter does, just directly in the circuitry of the
card.

> 2. The document said to boot with Dos 3.3 diskette, but i do not have
> one. But i guess that one of my game diskette uses Dos 3.3. Is it ok to
> boot the game up and press CTRL-Reset later?

Depends on the game.  If you see the ] prompt when it is booting you
might be able to break out of the startup pressing CTRL-C.  Most games
will set the Ctrl-Reset handler to reboot the computer.

> I also read in the faq that i can use Dos.3.3 diskette to create other
> Dos 3.3 diskette using "INIT HELLO". Can i do this using the above
> method? Boot Dos 3.3 game disk, CTRL-Reset and "INIT HELLO".

That's correct.  If you boot the disk and see the "prodos" startup
messages, you'll know it is definately not Dos 3.3 :-)  Otherwise, if
it is some sort of custom dos you will probably never be able to get to
the prompt and use regular dos 3.3 commands like "catalog" and so on.

> 3. Do i actually need Dos 3.3. to boot? Can i just boot without a
> diskette, CTRL-Reset to prompt, and do the operations (serial transfer
> via ADT) they give in the document?

Probably.  I would imagine ADT was designed to work for folks that have
a working computer and no disks.  I could be wrong though.

> 4. What type of disk should i use to receive image file? Blank diskette
> with Dos 3.3 or Blank diskette formatted without Dos 3.3 (to store data
> only)?

Blank without 3.3 -- however you might want to format and verify the
disk just to make sure it doesn't have any media errors.  Those
floppies die so easily.  And nowadays we have many more sources of
electro-magnetic radiation to kill them faster (don't leave your
cellphone near your floppies -- have you heard what it sounds like next
to a speaker?)