Re: PC-to-Apple ][ File Transfer

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

DocMac wrote:
> I downloaded the popular ap2222pc program series for transferring disk
> images from Apple ][ to PC via game port/parallel port.  Great idea --
> but it doesn't run for me, despite all respondents that I've read
> having had no big problem.  Issue:  The program is written for a 48 KB
> machine -- the original config.  Mine (which I've had since 1982) uses
> a language card, which boosts RAM to 64 KB.  I tried removing the card,
> but the Apple refuses to do much of anything without it -- won't load
> from disk or predictably respond to keystrokes.

That's abnormal--assuming that you plugged a 16K DRAM chip back
in where the 16KB card pigtail was plugged (check orientation).

FWIW, 64K shouldn't interfere with anything at all.

> 1.  Does anyone have any experience with ap2222pc that would help me
> sort out what might be wrong?  On the PC side, I'm using an old 486
> laptop, as the program doesn't run under 32-bit systems.

What, exactly, is happening?  Does anything see anything else?
Have you counted the game port pins correctly?

> 2.  Does anyone know how to remove the language card (which I thought
> would be a no-brainer), dropping the machine back to original 48 KB
> config?  Is there some trick other than replacing the RAM chip?  (I
> also have a 64 KB Legend RAM card, but that shouldn't be an issue -- it
> has to be mapped in programatically 16 KB at a time.)

You're doing it right.  But it shouldn't matter.

-michael

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