Re: it's a FAQ I know, but IIc 5.25" -> anything?

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <42F11EDC.C1CCD402@swbell.net>,
Rubywand  <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote:
>Martin Doherty writes ...
>> 
> ....
>> 
>> I'm sure I've read here about some amazing software that lets you read
>> an Apple 5.25" disk on an MS-DOS/Wintel machine under specific
>> circumstances?
>> 
> ....
>
>     CiderPress? Don't know. Isn't Apple II's Disk II encoding
>hardware-incompatible with modern PC 5.25" drive interfaces?
>
>Rubywand

Not Ciderpress but DISK2FDI :

http://www.oldskool.org/disk2fdi

Yes, the Apple II low-level format is incompatible with standard
MFM disk controllers.  But this utility (which btw runs only under
plain MS-DOS -- no Windows!) still manages to read Apple II
floppy disks into .DSK format file images on a PC.  It can only
read the floppies though, not write to them.  And I suppose the
Apple II floppy disk cannot be copy protected, it must be "open".




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